Calçots con romesco | Grilled spring onions with roasted tomatoes and nuts sauce

calçots

🥗Healthier: spring onions

💰Cheaper: green onions

Spring onions are more widely available and provide a similar flavor.

almonds

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Walnuts and sunflower seeds can provide similar texture and flavor.

Hydrate dried nura peppers in boiling water for a couple of hours.

Drizzle extra virgin olive oil on tomatoes and roast them on parchment paper for about 45 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.

Add the head of garlic to roast in the last 5 minutes.

Toast hazelnuts, almonds, and a slice of bread with extra virgin olive oil during the last 5 minutes of roasting.

Discard the skins of the roasted tomatoes and squeeze out the flesh of the garlic.

Combine roasted tomatoes, garlic, soaked nura peppers, salt, pepper, sweet paprika, toasted hazelnuts, almonds, and bread in a food processor.

Blend into a fine puree, leaving some lumps if desired.

Prepare a mini barbecue using sarmiento branches for grilling the calçots.

Grill calçots until charred, then wrap in newspaper to steam for 20 minutes before serving.

Serve grilled calçots with romesco sauce.

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