How to Roast Peanuts at Home
The other day while searching co-ops for additive free feed grade wheat I saw a local feed store with big grocery bags of raw peanuts for $4.99. Being ignorant of the difference between raw and roasted I bought some.
Note: Raw peanuts do not taste good.
Luckily there are several recipes online to show you how to roast peanuts. I have done this several times now, and find I prefer to roast the nuts shelled as it keeps me from eating them all as I shell them, but I try to make Genny help, because otherwise I spend hours shelling raw nuts, and then Genny eats all my roasted peanuts…
I did find out that my local food co-op sells raw shelled nuts, which saves me from having to buy the molds to make a concrete peanut sheller from another third world appropriate tech group the Full Belly Project
The process for roasting is simple:
Dry Roasted Peanuts
- Place raw peanuts, in-shell or shelled, one layer deep in a shallow baking pan.
- Roast in a 350°F oven — 15 to 20 minutes for shelled and 20 to 25 minutes for in-shell peanuts.
- Remove from heat just short of doneness desired, as peanuts continue to cook as they cool.
I have a trail mix that will make your roasted peanuts taste like a payday candy bar.
However if you want to really do this up right you can make:
Honey Roasted Peanuts.
All you need to do different is to put your nuts in a bowl while the oven is heating and toss in a mixture of heated honey and melted butter (2 tablespoons each to 2 cups of peanuts) and toss the peanuts to coat in the mixture.
The honey burns easily so you want to roast for about 5 minutes then take out and stir, then replace in the oven for another 5-8 minutes.
It would be a good idea to line the pan with foil, as this makes a hard sticky mess in the pan if you don’t.
This is a fun easy and fast way to make an enjoyable family snack. It is easy enough to use to introduce a child to cooking, is novel enough to be interesting, and has a very good product at the end.
Honey Roasted Peanuts
