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What nuts do you use to cook with and what do you make? Specifically cooking - not baking deserts or roasting to eat by themselves. I noticed that Thai and Chinese food uses peanuts and cashews a lot in noodles and stir fry, but you almost never see nuts used in French/Italian noodle dishes. Why are there no nuts in Western cooking?

>> No.18036381

>>18036349
>pesto alla genovese
>pesto di noci
also pistachios are commons in pasta

>> No.18036392

deez

>> No.18036393

>>18036349
You forgott that one of italys most famous pasta sauces is nut based ?

While pesto is usually pine nut based, there are pesto with walnut, cheshew, pistachio and maron.

I rarley use nuts for non sweet cooking. I sonetimes make my own peanut sauce
Ceshew sauce is damn good. But I never made it at home. The priece of the nuts scares me.
I never use whole buts as a toping. I really hate how they feel in savory dishes. The only exeptoion is Rissoto. But they are not whole in it either.

>> No.18036419

>>18036381
any recs for pistachio pasta? I've never heard of that before
>>18036393
yeah .. forgot to put the pesto disclaimer in the OP. never really thought about that but it does seem like nuts are only used in sweet stuff, which explains a lot come to think

>> No.18036984

>>18036349
I mostly use hazelnuts, pistachios and cashews. I toast and chop them and put them in all kinds of things, stuffing, lasagna, pasta sauce, stir fries, ravioli filling, crust for fish or steak, added to different vegetable purees...

>> No.18036997

coconuts

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>>18036349
Not in my cooking but I always add to my salads. Usually it's walnuts (if salad has also apples and or pomegranate), pistachio, almonds, cashew or even peanuts depending what I am combining it with. Also add various seeds.

>> No.18038060

Sex

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18038142

I'm of partly Jewish Moroccan descent and we use a lot of nuts.

A great recipe you should try if you like nuts is Tangia/Tanzia.

The recipe I usually make uses Brazil nuts, walnuts, cashews and almonds, and also contains a lot of dried fruits.

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>> No.18038163

>>18038142
Oh and also it's not actually called Tangia apparently, can't find any information in English

Here's the recipe (in Hebrew) if anyone's interested, it's a sweet and savory sort of recipe and you usually mix it with rice, a nice way to not just eat plain rice and spice things up in life.
https://www.thekitchencoach.co.il/%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%96%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/

(Also this guy's recipes are g04t but I don't know if any of them are legible through Google Translate or whatnot)