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Tarator
- Serves
4–6
- Difficulty
Easy
By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington
Published 1998
You find different variations on pine nut sauces in Egypt, the Lebanon and Syria. They are usually thinner than the Turkish tarator sauce, which is thick like a mayonnaise. Tarator is also made using walnuts and is very easy to produce using a food processor. Tarator also makes a nice dip for raw vegetables.
Ingredients
85 g 3 oz 3
Method
Grind the pine nuts to a coarse powder in a coffee grinder (not forgetting to clean it first). Put the garlic into a food processor with the ground pine nuts, salt and black pepper.
With the machine running at full speed, add the olive oil through the feeder tube, then the lemon juice. If necessary, add a little more oil to achieve a thick, spoonable sauce. Taste, adding more lemon juic