Nut Snacks - The Topic

[Kim Shook]

I couldn't find a topic about using nuts to make snack mixes, so I'm starting one.  An experiment for sugar free nuts for my FIL for Xmas:

A friend on another site suggested that I make Dorie’s Sweet and Spicy Cocktail nuts.  I did them with Splenda and they are delicious – sugar, chili powder, cinnamon and cayenne.  They are going into the freezer for Christmas.

[CatPoet]

Salted chipotle almonds

200 gram whole almonds with skin

200 ml water

4 teaspoon salt

1/2 - 1 teaspoon chipotle paste.

 

Heat up the water, salt and chipotle paste i a pot , until the salt is dissolved. Add the almonds, sett aside for 2- 5 min.  Drain and lay on tray with baking paper  and bake for 5-10 min  400 F, until  roasted and golden.

[Shel_B]

Have you tried the Union Square Café bar nuts?  Been using the recipe for a couple of years.

 

Here's a link to the version I've been using:  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=7039143

[CatPoet]

In my recipe you can change the chipotle paste with  liquid smoke.

[Franci]

I make pecan or walnuts with cayenne pepper using a mix of techniques. I took the advice of Eileen Yin-Fen Lo to boil the walnuts 2 times to avoid that unpleasant tannin taste that walnuts can have. I boil 250 g of walnuts in 1 Liter water for 5 minutes. Refresh and repeat. I put in a pot 1/3 cup water and 4 tablespoons sugar, boil for one minute. Add the walnuts and let the syrup consume. I add 1 tablespoon and half oil, mix. Add cayenne pepper taste, mix. Spread on a tray covered with parchment or silpat, sprinkle with fleur de sel and bake for about 45 minutes at 300 F, stirring every 15 minutes. When they are nice and golden and fully dry inside they are ready.

With almonds I've used the egg white method and I like it better, but for walnuts that is my way to go recipe.

[gfweb]

Pecans with salt, sugar and allspice.

[weedy]

infuse olive oil and  butter with finely chopped rosemary over low heat.

 

stir in nuts and sprinkle with espellete or cayenne

[Kim Shook]

Some early Christmas cooking – SF Pecans w/ Quattre Epices for a gift for my FIL:

 

Cinnamon Pecans: