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Walnuts Recipes

18 recipes with walnuts for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

18 recipes

🇺🇸USAEasy

Salads

Apple Waldorf Salad

This classic American Waldorf salad combines the crispness of apples and celery, the rich flavor of walnuts and a tangy mayonnaise dressing.

13 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Arugula Salad with Pear, Walnuts, and Parmesan

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Salads

Arugula Salad with Pear, Walnuts, and Parmesan

Peppery arugula tossed with sliced ripe pear, toasted walnuts, and shaved Parmesan, dressed in a sharp lemon vinaigrette. The bitterness of the greens against sweet fruit and nutty cheese creates a salad that actually excites.

13 min250 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🥑Keto

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Salads

Beet Cheese Salad

Beet and Goat Cheese Salad is a delicious and colorful salad that combines the sweetness of roasted beets with the creamy texture of goat cheese and the crunchiness of nuts.

55 min270 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Salads

Rockfor Salad

Mixed greens, toasted walnuts, and crumbles of pungent Roquefort blue cheese in a honey-mustard vinaigrette. The interplay between the sharp, cave-aged cheese and crunchy walnuts makes every bite bold and interesting.

20 min200 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

🇺🇸USAMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Brownie

Dense, fudgy squares loaded with dark chocolate and butter, with a crackly paper-thin crust on top and a gooey center underneath. The line between baked and underbaked is razor-thin — and that is exactly where you want to land.

40 min360 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Banana Bread

The beloved American quick bread — ultra-moist, deeply banana-flavored loaf with a caramelized crust. The secret is using very ripe, almost black bananas and browning the butter first.

75 min310 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lentil Bolognese

Red lentils simmered with soffritto, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, and red wine into a thick, deeply savory pasta sauce. No meat, no substitutes — just lentils doing what they do best when you give them enough time and heat. The sauce works because red lentils dissolve into the tomato base, thickening it while adding body and protein. Walnuts, added near the end, give the sauce a slight richness and something to chew on. The whole thing takes about 40 minutes and tastes better the next day.

45 min480 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot cake is one of the very few cakes where the vegetable in the name is not a compromise — it genuinely makes the cake better. Freshly grated carrots release moisture directly into the batter and carry the spices into every crumb. The cake uses oil rather than butter, which keeps it moist even straight from the fridge. Brown sugar adds molasses depth that plain white sugar doesn't. The cream cheese frosting is the best part: tangy, rich, and not too sweet when you use a measured hand with the icing sugar. This is a two-layer cake assembled with frosting between the layers and swirled over the top and sides.

90 min510 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇱🇧LebanonMedium

Sauces and Dips

Muhammara

Muhammara comes from Aleppo, Syria, and the name is Arabic for 'reddened'. It's a roasted red pepper and walnut dip with a flavor unlike anything else in the mezze world: sweet from the peppers, tangy from pomegranate molasses, earthy from toasted walnuts, with a slow heat from Aleppo pepper. Breadcrumbs give it body and a slightly grainy texture that holds up on pita. The dip improves overnight — the flavors round out and the texture firms slightly. Unlike hummus, which can be polarising, muhammara tends to win over everyone who tries it.

20 min195 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan⚡Quick

🇬🇪GeorgiaEasy

Sauces and Dips

Adjika

A fiery Georgian-Abkhazian spice paste of hot red peppers, garlic, salt, walnuts, and Caucasian spices like blue fenugreek and coriander. Authentic adjika has no tomatoes; it is ground raw into a red pesto-like paste and used as a rub or condiment.

25 min25 kcal20 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

🇬🇪GeorgiaMedium

Sauces and Dips

Bazhe

A cold, uncooked Georgian walnut sauce, often called the king of Georgian sauces. Ground walnuts, garlic, and spices like blue fenugreek and marigold are loosened with vinegar and water into a creamy, tangy sauce served with poultry, fish, and vegetables.

15 min130 kcal10 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇬🇪GeorgiaMedium

Sauces and Dips

Satsebeli

A Georgian tomato-and-walnut sauce whose name means for dunking. Ripe tomatoes are reduced and blended with walnuts, garlic, cilantro, basil, and Georgian spices like blue fenugreek into a tangy, pourable sauce served with grilled meat, potatoes, and bread.

30 min55 kcal12 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

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