Walnut Oil Recipes
If you noticed we are now offering 100% Organic Walnut Oil from our dry-farmed walnuts, you might have wondered about ways to use it in cooking and baking. Here are a few suggestions to help you get started making our super healthy walnut oil part of your cooking practice – whether you like to prepare fancy meals or would rather go for down-to-earth dishes.
Walnut Oil in Salad
For the Dressing:
- ¼ cup Balsamic vinegar
- ¾ cup Walnut Oil
- ½ TSP sea salt
- 1 TSP pepper
- 1 TBSP mustard
- 1 TBSP honey
To enhance the delightful taste of walnuts in the dressing, you can use whole or chopped walnuts in the salad. When I made a salad for Christmas, I used candied walnuts which I had heated in a pan, adding Balsamic Vinegar and honey. Apart from walnuts, my salad consisted of spinach, granny smith apples and feta cheese. If you are daring and aiming to surprise the people at your dinner party, add an uncooked, shredded beet to the salad. It will make the salad stand out amongst others due to its provocative color. This “down to earth” root vegetable will also compensate some of the flavor excitement that lies in the combination of the apples’ tartness, the sweetness of the crunchy candied walnuts, lingering in a soft bedding of sheep’s milk crumbles … Here is the whole recipe:
- ½ cup of candied Walnuts (½ cup of Walnuts, 1 TBSP Balsamic Vinegar, 1 TBSP honey)
- one bunch of fresh spinach
- 1 granny smith apple
- ½ cup of feta cheese
- 1 shredded beet
Walnut Oil sprinkled over warm dishes
If your aim is to preserve the high nutritive value of our cold pressed walnut oil, you should not use it for high temperature cooking. Yet, it is makes a tasty finishing oil when sprinkled over warm vegetable or pasta dishes. In my aunt’s garden, the mustard greens are currently taking over, so I harvested a bunch and simply steamed them along with olive oil and garlic for a few minutes. I then poured the steamed greens over a serving of cooked whole wheat spaghetti, before sprinkling some walnut oil over the dish and adding a few chopped roasted walnuts. If you want to make it fancy, you could enrich your dish by adding parmesan cheese. Myself, I very much found comfort in the down-to-earth nutty version that enhances our delightful organic walnuts in various ways and will nourish both your body and soul! Enjoy!
- two serving sizes of cooked whole wheat spaghetti
- one bunch of mustard greens
- two cloves of garlic
- ½ cup of walnut oil
- ½ cup of chopped walnuts
- Salt and pepper