Quince, Apple or Pear Allioli

Name: Quince, Apple or Pear Allioli (Allioli amb Codonys, Pomes o Peres)
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 100 ml/3½ fl oz/generous ⅓ cup olive oil (use half extra virgin olive oil and half ordinary olive oil or sunflower oil); ½ tsp salt; Lemon juice or honey to taste; 2-4 garlic cloves, peeled but left whole; 2 apples, pears or quinces

Allioli amb Codonys, Pomes o Peres

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food of Northern Spain

By Jenny Chandler

Published 2005

About

This is wonderful served with roasted meats or grilled (broiled) fish and absolutely addictive with good sourdough bread. The fruit stabilizes the mixture and so there really is no need to add any egg yolk.

Ingredients

2 apples, pears or quinces
2-4 garlic cloves, peeled but left whole
½ tsp

Europe
Spain
Navarre
Asturias
Galicia
Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegan
Catalonia
Mediterranean

Method

Peel and core the fruit then cut it up into rough chunks.

Place the fruit in a small saucepan, cover with water and simmer until quite tender; this will take about 15 minutes for apples and pears but 30 minutes for the quince. Drain the fruit.

Make a paste with the garlic and salt in a mortar with a pestle or even in a small blender. Next add the fruit and mash everything to a p