Spiced Nuts
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Martha Stewart Living Special Issues, 2005
- Yield Makes 2 1/2 cups
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Ingredients
- 1 large egg white
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 3/4 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 2 1/2 cups pecan halves, or assorted nuts, such as cashews, walnuts, or almonds
Directions
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Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Beat egg white until soft and foamy. Combine all remaining ingredients except pecans; whisk into egg white. Stir in pecans until well coated; spread mixture in single layer onto an ungreased baking pan.
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Bake pecans for 15 minutes, then remove from oven. Using a metal spatula, toss, stir, and separate nuts. Reduce oven to 250 degrees and return nuts to bake until medium brown, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven; toss, and stir again. Place baking pan on wire rack to cool (they will crisp as they cool). Break up any that stick together.
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I made this for a work party and my co-workers raved over it. Everybody asked me for the recipe.
I did reduce the amount of cayenne to a bit less than one teaspoon, and I would suggest people making it for a large crowd do the same. But I am eager to try it as it is written for me and my spicy food-loving friends.
I prefer Martha's other Spiced Nuts and Seeds recipe. http://www.wholeliving.com/photogallery/savory-snacks-under-200#slide_3
Delicious recipe, though 1 3/4 teaspoons cayenne pepper is A LOT! I used 1 1/4 teaspoons and it was plenty spicy. Would use even less if I were making the recipe for people sensitive to spicy foods. I don't think one egg white was too much at all, as one reviewer thought, and I certainly wouldn't alter the amount of any of the other ingredients, aside from the cayenne.
I think that one egg white is way too much - I'm going to try doubling the amount of nuts.
These are my favorite spiced nuts! You can alter how spicy they are by choosing different types of cayenne pepper. Watch for the scoville unit count - it usually ranges between 30,000 to 50,000, although I've seen higher. This Christmas I didn't check the count and got milder cayenne... they were still good, but not spicy.
I'm not sure if I took a wrong turn here... but I followed the recipe exactly and I can even eat these. They are so incredibly spicy!!
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