Posted on
November 20, 2025 by
The VRG Weblog Editor
Listed here are some concepts for including nuts to your menu from Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD:
- Add to salad dressings: Creations embody a basil walnut French dressing or creamy salad dressing with almonds, mustard, and dill with added chopped pine nuts.
- Add to sandwiches: Chopped walnuts, almonds, peanuts, and pecans add a toasty taste and additional texture to grilled vegetable sandwiches, falafel, and hummus. Or add chopped nuts to easy peanut, almond, or soy butters to make a crunchy sandwich.
- Use as garnish: Improve protein, taste, and texture by including to bean and rice casseroles, baked potatoes, cold and hot cereal, baking batters, puddings, or vegan ice cream sundaes.
- Add to pasta: High tomato-sauced pasta with chopped almonds or pine nuts, creamy-sauced pastas with walnuts or pecans, or toss pasta with olive oil, sautéed garlic, and chopped almonds.
- Add to sauces: Stir peanut butter or soy butter into mushroom sauces for a Thai impact; add floor almonds or pine nuts to creamy sauces and pecans or pistachios to fruit sauces.
- Add to breakfast: Baked apples, oatmeal, scorching cereals, chilly cereals, and muffins can all profit from quite a lot of chopped nuts.

