Bagna Brusca

Brusca means “tart” or “sour,” and bagna comes from bagnare, “to wet” or “to bathe.” This sauce is related to the Sephardic agristada, made with sour grape juice (verjus), and it resembles the familiar Greek and Turkish egg-and-lemon avgolemono sauces used for thickening meat and vegetable stews at the last minute.

Edda Servi Machlin calls this same sauce brodo brusco (sour broth) because she uses beef broth as the ba