Did you know that caramelized nuts are incredibly easy to cook at home? In this case, you only need a frying pan or microwave, and of course, the nuts and sugar themselves.
I want to share with you two ways of making caramelized nuts. Both are incredibly simple. Choose the one that is more convenient for you.
You will be surprised how quickly you can cook nuts in sugar and you will never buy this treat in the store again.
Also, such nuts can be beautifully packaged and presented to children as a sweet present.
By the way, in this way you can sugar any kind of nuts - the choice is yours!
Method number 1. Nuts in a frying pan
Ingredients:
- peanuts - 200 g
- sugar - 100 g
- water - 50 ml
Step by step recipe
1. First, prepare the caramel nuts in a frying pan.
Pour 200 g of peanuts into the pan. I took peeled peanuts, but you can take not peeled peanuts.
Stir constantly and fry it over medium heat.
So you can cook any nuts, they will all be delicious.
2. In a separate bowl, mix 100 g of sugar and 50 ml of water.
3. When the peanuts have already fried to the desired state, pour water and sugar into it.
Continuously stirring with a spatula, cook it further.
4. At a certain moment, when all the water has already evaporated, the crystallization process will begin in the sugar syrup.
We mix everything without stopping until all the sugar syrup crystallizes.
The peanuts in sugar are ready, only they need to be allowed to cool.
Method number 2. Nuts in the microwave
Ingredients:
- almonds - 200 g
- sugar - 100 g
- water 30 ml
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp l.
Step by step recipe
1. You can also microwave sugar-coated nuts.
Pour 200 g of almonds into a bowl, add 100 g of sugar, 1 tsp. l. ground cinnamon and pour 30 ml of water.
We mix everything.
2. We put the bowl in the microwave for 3 minutes, power 800 W.
After 3 minutes, we take out the bowl and alter everything.
3. After 2 min. take out the nuts and stir with a spoon without stopping until all the caramel has crystallized.
This happens very quickly. Let the nuts cool and you can treat yourself.
This method can be used to cook any nuts in sugar.
You can make sweet gifts for kids from such nuts.
Pour different nuts into each bag and tie them with beautiful ribbons.
These are such cute and delicious do-it-yourself gifts.
The caramel nuts turned out to be very tasty and aromatic due to the cinnamon. Vanilla sugar can be added instead of cinnamon.
The nuts are so delicious that it is impossible to tear themselves away from them. They are prepared very simply, easily and quickly.
Video recipe
Recipe taken from my culinary site gotovimop.com