Soft Eggs in Pine Kernel Sauce

Name: Soft Eggs in Pine Kernel Sauce
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: ½ tsp lovage seed; generous freshly ground black pepper; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 tbsp fish sauce; 50 ml wine; 1 dessert spoon honey; 100 g pine kernels; 4 soft-boiled eggs, cooled and shelled

Apicius 7.13.3

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking Apicius

By Sally Grainger

Published 2006

About

This is a easy standby recipe that is similar to egg mayonnaise but with an extra kick from the lovage. The pine kernels are soaked in water or wine to soften them so that they make a soft creamy sauce.

Ingredients

100 g pine kernels
50 ml wine
1 dessert spoon

Europe
Italy
Rome
Starter
Side dish
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Soak the pine kernels in the wine overnight. Put them in a food processor with the honey, vinegar, and fish sauce, and process until smooth. Roast and grind the lovage seeds, mix with black pepper, add to the sauce and taste. Adjust the texture with the wine used to soak the pine kernels. Shell the eggs carefully and cut them in half, spooning a