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Green Walnuts
Green Walnuts is a term that means unripe walnuts. They are sometimes also called "Wet Walnuts." They are regular walnuts, but just picked before the nut shell starts to form and harden.
They look vaguely like limes. They are ready to pick when they are about 1 inch (2 1 /2 cm) wide.
In France and Italy, the traditional time to pick them is the 24 June, but in other areas, such as California, the ideal picking time may arrive about 2 or 3 weeks earlier.
In Italy, you can place your order in advance with your greengrocer.
The unripe nuts have a sour taste, and a slightly spicy taste that doesn't come through in the mature nut.
They can be used for several things:
- can be pickled in vinegar, or used for sweet preserves, preserved whole in syrup;
- can be used to make alcoholic beverages such as "nocino";
- marmalade.
When you are preserving them in vinegar or syrup, you use the whole thing unpeeled -- both the green skin and the inside.
You can also peel them, and eat the kernel as is out of hand.
Also called:  Wet Walnuts
See Also
Nocino, Pickled Walnuts
Other entries for Walnuts
Green Walnuts, Walnuts
Other entries for Nuts
Acorns, Almonds, Amalou, Brazil Nuts, Cashew Nuts, Chestnuts, Coconuts, Hazelnuts, Macadamia Nuts, Peanuts, Pecans, Pine Nuts, Pistachios, Tigernuts
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