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How To Toast Pine Nuts

Roasted pine nuts are great for making your own pesto, or can be sprinkled over other pasta dishes or salads. In this step by step guide Paul Ellis, chef and cookery school owner, shows you how to toast pine nuts in a pan. Enlarge

How To Toast Pine Nuts

Roasted pine nuts are great for making your own pesto, or can be sprinkled over other pasta dishes or salads. In this step by step guide Paul Ellis, chef and cookery school owner, shows you how to toast pine nuts in a pan.

Cook:
2m
Total:
2m

Ingredients

  • pine nuts
  • olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper

Method

Heat a frying pan, then add a little olive oil and the pine nuts, and season with salt and pepper.

Keep moving the pine nuts around in the pan with a spoon to stop them burning.

They should take about 2 minutes to go golden brown.