Southwestern Party Nuts Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How do you get seasoning to stick to nuts? ›

To get the spices to stick to the nuts, use egg whites, butter, coconut oil, olive oil or blanch the nuts in boiling water. Some recipes call for nuts to be fried in oil prior to seasoning, but this adds unnecessary fat – you can make them just a delicious without all the extra calories.

For special occasions like showers or birthday parties, you can serve nuts in tiny mason jars. Not only does this alleviate contamination concerns, but it also makes for easier snacking. Feel free to customize the jars with the date of the celebration and a ribbon.

Mixed nuts are a snack food consisting of any mixture of mechanically or manually combined nuts. Common constituents are peanuts (actually a legume), almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts (filberts), and pecans. Mixed nuts may be salted, roasted, cooked, or blanched.

It may seem counterintuitive to soak your nuts before you roast them, when the goal is a crunchy cashew. But some experts swear by this trick to give your cashews extra flavor, as well as helping them be more digestible.

If you have a good piece of meat that's all you need. I vacuum marinate chicken, dry. Add a touch of olive oil and season from there, then let sit for awhile to dry and get to room temp before grilling. If you use melted butter as the vehicle for your seasonings, that works well for me.

Mix Up Your Nuts

You can also fill paper candy cups or mini muffin cups with a variety of nuts, crackers or cheese cubes. For an elegant new way to serve co*cktail-hour snacks…break out those sterling silver demitasse spoons your grandmother left you and fill one bowl with spoons and another with nuts.

Because of their adaptability and affordability, plastic pouches are popular for packing nuts. Nuts are kept crisp and fresh in these pouches due to their outstanding moisture resistance.

Recommended daily serving of nuts

The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend 30 grams of nuts on most days of the week for adults. As all nuts have a similar nutrient content, a wide variety of nuts can be included as part of a healthy diet. One serving is approximately 30 grams – or 1/3 of a cup (or one handful).

I prefer to use avocado oil or coconut oil when roasting nuts, because they both have a much higher smoke point while cooking than olive oil does. Avocado oil is a very neutral flavor, and it's my favorite oil to use for cooking.

Roasted, for me, means you cook them in the oven, and toasted means you cook the nuts on the stove top. I see both words used interchangeably online, though. I use both methods, depending on whether I need to roast a few nuts or a lot, and how quickly I need them.

Do you use oil when roasting nuts? ›

How to roast nuts on the stove. You can toss the nuts right into a pan over medium heat, no oil necessary. Just shake the pan occasionally so they toast evenly and don't burn. When they're finished, transfer them out of the hot pan so they don't keep browning.

Another healthy mix to satisfy your snack craving is peanut butter bosom friend. You can make this healthy nut mix by combining banana chips, peanuts, almonds, peanut butter chips, dark chocolate chips, and any other ingredient you want to add.

However, certain foods, such as leafy greens, whole grains, eggs, and nuts, will not raise it as much as others and can help lower long-term fasting glucose levels. This means these foods will not raise a person's blood sugar, also known as blood glucose. These foods may also help them avoid a blood sugar spike.

Steaming: If you want to avoid using oil or butter, you can steam the nuts before adding salt. Place the nuts in a strainer and hold them over boiling water for about 30 seconds. The steam will coat the nuts, and then you can sprinkle them with salt. Let the nuts air dry for a few minutes before serving [3].

Place nuts in a strainer and rinse well with filtered water. Make sure you get all the nuts wet as it is the water that helps the salt to stick. Place rinsed nuts in a bowl and toss well with sea salt.

To add salt to already cooked unsalted nuts, you can toss them in a bowl with a small amount of melted butter or oil, then sprinkle salt over them and toss until evenly coated. Alternatively, you can bake them briefly with a bit of salt for a toasted flavor. Adjust salt to taste.

Finer salt clings more easily than coarse granules (it's easy to reduce salt crystals in a mortar), but not much dry salt will ever stick to dry nuts. Maybe there's no perfect solution, but coating hot cashews with a little oil will help the salt to hold better.