How To Make Spiced Nuts

I'm going to show you how to make spiced nuts. I've got a variety of nuts here, I've got some almonds, some pecans and some cashew nuts. Into here, you just mix them up a little bit into this bowl and I'm actually going to use this bowl as my mixing bowl.

Into here, I'm just going to add a half tablespoon of oil. Now, that might seem like quite a little amount but do remember that the nuts are going to emit their own oil as they begin to heat. We're actually going to put them into the oven so the heat will release out of the nuts themselves.

Also, if you have too much oil in the nuts, then the flavours that we add to these will just begin to drop out a little bit. So, it's important that that the oil ratio is sort of very low quantity of oil to the spices that we add. So, to here, I'm going to add a teaspoon, just under a teaspoon of salt, which again seems like a lot of salt but again, it actually comes down quite a lot.

I'm going to add half teaspoon of hot chilli powder. Now, this is a half teaspoon of black pepper. This is a half teaspoon cumin powder, actually, I want to add one teaspoon.

So, I'm going to add two half spoons. I'm going to add a quarter teaspoon of black pepper, followed by finally a quarter teaspoon of chat macula. Now, the chat macula is just going to give it a final sort of lovely flavour to it.

Now, I'm going to start by using a spoon and I'm just going to give this a really good mix and it takes a little bit of time because the oil has sunk to the bottom. I don't know whether you can see that but there's a little bit of oil here. Now, we want that to spread all over the nuts.

And if you find that actually the spoon method is a little bit ineffective, then don't be afraid to get your hands in there and really move it around. Because by doing so, you're actually rubbing lots of the spices on to the nuts themselves. Now, these nuts are ready to go.

I foiled the tray here, just to keep it clean and so the nuts can actually just sort of fall around the tray and I'm just going to turn those out. Make sure you take all the spices with you from the bowl and just lay them flat on the tray. Now, this tray is ready to go into the oven.

I've preheated the oven at one hundred forty degrees and now, that's going to take about fifteen minutes or so. I want to check on them at fifteen minutes and see just how roasted they are. Then, come back and put back in for maybe another five minutes or so.

So, let me just take these over to the oven. And we'll come back to those in just a few minutes. Okay, so the spiced nuts have been in the oven for about ten to twelve minutes.

Let's go and have a look and see how they're doing. Well, they certainly smell like they're ready, so let's, yes, very good, so you can see that they are just beginning to split here and you can also see slightly glazed look on the almonds and pecans so they're perfectly ready and you can also see that the cashew nuts have changed colour and they've become sort of quite a crispy golden brown colour. So, actually, they're ready to be turned out now.

The danger is if you were to leave them on the tray, they would continue cooking from the residual heat from the tray itself. So, given that they are ready, we really want to turn them out onto your serving dish.

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