Sour Cream Dip with Walnuts and Garlic

A bowl of sour cream dip in the middle of chips and vegetables. Dip is garnished with walnuts and olive oil.

Albanian Salce Kosi - Sour Cream Dip with Walnuts and Garlic. This dip is used in mezes in several Mediterranean countries with some variation in each country. This sour cream dip is perfect when served with spicy roasts, grilled meats etc.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Albanian, Mediterranean

Keyword Albanian Food, Dip, Mediterranean Food, Meze, Salce Kosi me arra, Sour Cream Dip, Sour cream dip with garlic, Sour Cream Dip with Walnuts, Sour Cream Meze

Prep Time 10

Chilling time 2

Total Time 10

Servings people

Calories 383kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

Mortar & Pestle

Ingredients

16 ozs sour cream regular, not fat free
5 garlic cloves
0.5 tsp salt adjust to taste
1 cup walnut halves
5 tbsps olive oil

Instructions

Crush garlic and salt in mortar.
Pour sour cream in a bowl. Add crushed garlic.
Mince half of the walnuts really thin and pour those on top of the sour cream as well.
Add 4 tbsps of olive oil and mix really well until everything is creamy and homogeneous.
Garnish on top with remaining walnuts and olive oil. Chill for 2 hours before serving so the flavors really can mix together.

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Notes

If this dip is served with meats and lots of other appetizers, you'll be able to put few tablespoons of this dip on each person's plate. But if you are using it just as dip then you might need to double the recipe because I usually run out of it in parties.

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