Spicy Boiled Peanuts

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Spicy Boiled Peanuts
Spicy Boiled Peanuts are hot, spicy and slurpy snacks. It’s very enjoyable if you like Cajun cuisine. Cajun boiled peanuts, like the boiled peanuts are popular in southern states of USA, like Louisiana, South Carolina, and others.
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Cuisine: Indian
Recipe type: Snacks
Serves: 5
Prep time: 
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Ingredients
  • 2 lb peanuts in shells (raw/not roasted)
  • 6 T salt (add to taste)
  • 1 T red pepper flakes (add to taste)
  • 1 T red pepper powder (add to taste)
  • 2 T red hot sauce* (add or reduce according to preference)
  • 3 q water (more can be added)
Instructions
  1. Clean and wash the fresh raw peanuts in shells. Take a pressure cooker or large pot and soak the peanuts in water and add salt according to taste. Next add the red pepper flakes and hot sauce. Let it cook till they are soft. Pressure cooking will save a lot of time, as against boiling them in the pot. If you don’t have a pressure cooker, use a large pot which has a lid with a small vent.
  2. Check for saltiness and spiciness while it’s cooking, add more if required. If the nuts are fresh they absorb the spicy easily, but if they are not so fresh, it takes more salt and spice to penetrate the shell. Remove from the pot or cooker just before it’s served. The spicy-salty boiled nuts taste better when warm.
  3. Important tip: If the peanuts are not fresh and shells look hard the salt and spice does not get well absorbed. Hence you need to make a small crack in each shell using the strength of your fingers.
Notes
*Red Hot Sauce- It can be a Louisiana style sauce or any hot sauce which has base ingredients of red chilli peppers. * I have reduced the salt amount in the spicy boiled nuts compared to the boiled nuts because the hot sauce also contains salt! * The first time I ate these nuts was many years ago when we were driving from Atlanta, Georgia to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The highways here have many small farmers market like stores selling boiled peanuts and Cajun boiled peanuts. Since then we love this spicy boiled nuts. For picnics I make a batch of spicy boiled nuts for adults and salty boiled nuts for kids. Everyone is pleased.
Serving Size
Serving size: 5

 

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