Salsa Verde

The term salsa verde covers a wide variety of sauces, all based on a blending of green herbs and oil seasoned with a little onion, garlic, perhaps capers, maybe the yolk of a hard-cooked egg or ground nuts for thickness, and always vinegar or lemon juice to make the whole combination sparkle. Parsley is usually the main herb with other herbs used as accents. If possible, use the flat-leaf Italian parsley, which has better flavor than the curly variety.

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