How To Blanch Almonds

I'll show you how to blanch almonds, which is actually even easier than it sounds. The job is really just a question of throwing your almonds into a pan of boiling water. It's going to take about a minute, and then we'll drain them and peel them.

Why would you blanch almonds? It's quite simple. If you were going to do a frangipane, an almond paste, you're going to want to blitz them up, and they go much finer if you take skins off. Also, if you're doing an almond flour, you might want to add that to a pastry just to give it more flavor, then taking the skins off and blitzing it off effectively turns it into that flour, whereas if you don't take the outer skin off, they don't go as coarse.

So, that's on for about 30 seconds, I'm just going to reach over, grab a bowl and a sieve, and we'll be ready to take them out of the boiling water. Now, these are a bit like tomatoes, well, they're not but you know what I mean, the reason I say that is because you can actually see, if you blanch tomatoes, the skin starts to fall off immediately, and you can see that without putting my hand in, we can still remove the skins, they pretty much do it themselves. I'll just do one for the demo and then you get the general idea.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how to blanch almonds. |Almonds are used for all sorts of recipes, and learning to blanch almonds can help you to learn even more. This simple VideoJug tutorial shows you exactly how to blanch almonds with ease.