Spiced almonds recipe please

noonesperfect

I should cut recipes out when I see them!

The recipe I saw involved just cumin,chilli powder olive oil and unblanched almonds - no salt or sugar.

As spicey almonds are my latest fad I went out and bought a bag of almonds, I have the rest in. Can I heckers find that recipe now!!

Don't suppose anyone has any easy recipes?:D

noonesperfect

Just bumping

Pink.

Hi noonesperfect,

If you have a look on google there are are lots of links to spiced almond recipes and you might find the one you were looking for,

Pink

noonesperfect

Thanks so much Pink! I will have fun experimenting.....

noonesperfect

Now that I've got my recipe for spiced almonds I need to now how many to use!!

The recipes I've kept vary between 1 and 3 cups.

Unfortunately all the conversion charts I've looked at so far (including one for american cups on here) use ground or chopped nuts, rather than whole almonds.

I don't suppose anyone can enlighten me?? Almonds are obviously pretty expensive so I want to make sure I'm using the correct amount.

ifonlyitwaseasier

i think i saw that 1 cup is 8oz, will go and double check tho...

minimoneyme

Saw this in the Guardian Christmas annual;
spiced nuts
100g almond/ 1tbsp water/1tsp Maldon salt/1tsp ground fennel seeeds
100g pecans or walnuts/1 tbsp water/ 1 tsp ground cumin
100g cashew nuts 1/2 whisked egg white/ 1/2 tsp sweet smoked paprika/1tsp seseme seeds
100g sunflower and pumpkin seeds/1tbsp water/1tsp Maldon salt/1/2 tsp chilli flakes
Use the same method for all three nut mixes but create them separately.
Mix the nuts with the egg white or water until covered, then add relevant spices, mix again. Bake in an oven at 150C Gas 2 for 20 mins checking often until golden brown.
For the seeds, mix with the water and spices as above, but toss in a dry frying pan until golden. When cool mix all together.
Havn't tried it yet, but sounds quite nice, I suppose you could adapt it to taste and cut out the salt (use celery salt instead)
Or what I do is get some almonds in a dish, add a splash of soy sauce (can get low salt, but watch the MSG if you are sensitive) a pinch of chilli powder, a pinch of cumin then dry fry, stiring all the time, so they don't burn. takes about 3/4 mins. When cool they are nice and crisp. Also works very well with unskinned almonds and with cashew nuts.

angelnikki

A cup is 8 fluid oz. So if you have a measuring jug you can fill it to the 8 fl oz level and that will equal 1 cup

ETA - 1 cup whole almonds is 143g

Nikki x

noonesperfect

minimoneyme wrote: »

Saw this in the Guardian Christmas annual;
spiced nuts
100g almond/ 1tbsp water/1tsp Maldon salt/1tsp ground fennel seeeds
100g pecans or walnuts/1 tbsp water/ 1 tsp ground cumin
100g cashew nuts 1/2 whisked egg white/ 1/2 tsp sweet smoked paprika/1tsp seseme seeds
100g sunflower and pumpkin seeds/1tbsp water/1tsp Maldon salt/1/2 tsp chilli flakes
Use the same method for all three nut mixes but create them separately.
Mix the nuts with the egg white or water until covered, then add relevant spices, mix again. Bake in an oven at 150C Gas 2 for 20 mins checking often until golden brown.
For the seeds, mix with the water and spices as above, but toss in a dry frying pan until golden. When cool mix all together.
Havn't tried it yet, but sounds quite nice, I suppose you could adapt it to taste and cut out the salt (use celery salt instead)
Or what I do is get some almonds in a dish, add a splash of soy sauce (can get low salt, but watch the MSG if you are sensitive) a pinch of chilli powder, a pinch of cumin then dry fry, stiring all the time, so they don't burn. takes about 3/4 mins. When cool they are nice and crisp. Also works very well with unskinned almonds and with cashew nuts.

Your version sounds delish!!