Real African Dishes: [MC-AllEthnic-Recipes] Spanish Olive Oil Garlic Sauce without Eggs - Ali-Oli Sauce

Saturday, August 20, 2011

[MC-AllEthnic-Recipes] Spanish Olive Oil Garlic Sauce without Eggs - Ali-Oli Sauce - 1 pt; 11g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber

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Spanish Olive Oil Garlic Sauce without Eggs - Ali-Oli Sauce

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Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Condiment LowCal (Less than 300 cals)
LowerCarbs LowFat (Less than 5%)
Vegan

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/2 pound boiling potatoes -- (approx 2 potatoes)
4 garlic cloves -- to taste
coarse sea salt
juice of 1 lemon
white pepper
extra-virgin olive oil

Freshly boil the potatoes in water.
Crush the garlic with sea salt in a heavy earthenware mortar until smooth.
Drain the warm potatoes, reserving some of the cooking liquid. Press out all the moisture, add to the garlic, and pound until smooth and elastic.
Add the lemon juice and white pepper.
Gradually drizzle in the olive oil in a slow, steady stream, about 3 tablespoons.
Loosen with some of the reserved potato cooking liquid to develop a nice consistency.
Set in a cool place to mellow.

Serves 4

AuthorNote: The Spanish Table (mail-order sources) sells beautiful Valencian yellow and green glazed mortars for making and serving the traditional ali-oli sauce.

Dense stale bread, soaked in water and squeezed dry, can substitute for the potatoes.

Making a garlic-olive oil sauce without eggs is not easy. You'll need a wooden pestle, an earthenware mortar, and, most important, a juice clove of garlic. Winter is definitely not the season for making ali-oli, since winter garlic tends to be dry.

Ali-oli takes practice. What you want is a mound resembling a beautiful lemon pudding. But not matter what you do, sooner or later your ali-oli with "bread". Some cooks choose to bind their sauce with egg yolk. If you don't want to take that route, I suggest another solution: potatoes. Heresy - of course... but it works.

Cuisine:
"Spanish/Iberian"
Source:
"Mediterranean Grains and Greens by Paula Wolfert, 1998"
S(Formatted by Chupa Babi):
"Aug 2011"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 49 Calories; trace Fat (1.2% calories from fat); 1g Protein; 11g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 4mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Vegetable.

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 797 0 0