How do you like your peanuts?
Do you have any special methods for cooking them?
What is the difference between a roasted peanut and a parched peanut?
Any peanut recipes?
Peanuts: Boiled or Roasted?
by cameo-d 19 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
I like peanuts boiled, parched, or roasted.
Parched = quickly cooked with high heat.
Roasted = slowly cooked with medium heat.
Boiled... = self explanatory.
Sylvia
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cameo-d
Boiled... = self explanatory
The peanut man told me there is a special secret. He said he cracks them a little bit by using a rolling pin on them before boiling. He said that way the salt gets through the shells (hulls?) and flavors the peanut.
Has anyone ever heard of that?
How long do you boil them?
Hard boil and then simmer for a long time or what?
The peanut man didn't give me all his secrets.
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snowbird
I just boil mine for about 5 0r 10 minutes.
I make sure it's a rolling boil.
No salt for me.
Sylvia
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dinah
I think they need to be fresh too. My grandpa used to grow peanuts. We only had boiled peanuts right after he would dig them up. Yep, he would dig and I would beat the dirt off of 'em. It was loads of fun.
We would boil them in salty water. We never measured the salt though. I'm guessing about handful of salt in about 6 quarts of water.
This little mini-spring weather made Dad break out the garden seed catalog. Ahhh, country living.
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snowbird
Yeah, Dinah.
Fresh from the ground peanuts before they dry are best.
We used to stack them around poles, and they would last until the next season.
Sylvia
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cameo-d
What time of the year do you find fresh peanuts?
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Quirky1
Hot boiled cajun style....mmmm!!
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Barbie Doll
I like my Peanuts Roasted and dip in Chocolate.
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snowbird
Cam, we always harvested our peanuts in the Fall.
I suppose it's still done that way.
No one around here farms any more.
Sylvia