Spiced Peanuts
Peanuts are, by far, my favorite boat snack. I keep a big can of them on the floor of the boat during every tournament or anytime I’m going to be on the water all day. They’re quick, healthy and tasty. This recipe takes regular roasted peanuts to the next level with a dry rub or any spices or herbs that you enjoy. If you like them spicy, throw in some extra black pepper and cayenne.
Hey, everybody. Jimmy Kennedy. Here with go outside. We’re here at the home again. I got the breeo fired up over there, and we’re going to show you how to make some barbecue spiced peanuts. You can do these any way you want. I have a lot of different herbs here. Chili pepper flakes wasabi, if you like them really spicy.
Adobo is really good. Everything bagel seasoning, all this stuff is just great on peanuts. But what I like to do is I like to use the barbecue rub. I like to cook these outside. Some people bake them. They’ll put them on a baking sheet, put them in the oven. That works great. But I like to do it outside or over an open fire in a cast iron and super, super duper easy recipe.
You can use olive oil, which I have here, just a little coating on the peanuts or you can use butter, you can melt some butter. Basically what you’re doing is just coating these things. So the rub will stick to them from whatever you use toss these up so they get a little shiny here looking good. And this is the barbecue rub I use on just about everything that goes on the grill.
It’s got a lot of sugar in it, so you got to kind of be careful to burn the peanuts. But that’s OK. It’s still a good coat them up to where you think they look good you might as well have some adobo. I’m kind of crazy about this stuff.
This is a small batch and it will go very quickly. You want to make a bunch of this stuff. You use dry roasted peanuts this isn’t that much of a recipe, but we’ll have it on the website for you. It’s more of a just get some peanuts and some olive oil, butter and whatever spices you like. All right.
That’s all there is to it. I’m going to let these soak a little bit or not soak, but marinade. I guess, and just let that rub and oil come together on these peanuts, doesn’t take long, then we’ll put them in a cast iron and cook them up just a few more minutes. These will be done. Alrighty. Okay, so we got our peanuts here.
They’re all coated. Looking good. I’ve got just a little bit of oil in this pan, not much because these peanuts are kinda oily anyway. And it’s nice and hot this is only going to take a few minutes. All we’re trying to do is just brown these things up a little bit, get them lightly. Brown and you could do it in the oven.
You could do it on open fire. You could do it on the grill anywhere, any time. These are super, super tasty. And super easy. They’re great for for trail mix, too. Just the peanuts you can use mixed nuts or anything, the dry roasted peanuts are really good like this.
Cooking. Great. Just a few more minutes we’ll be able to enjoy these kind of try to keep them in a single layer if you can. All right. Okay so these are cooking very quickly and getting a little dark, but that’s okay. That’s yummy, yummy sugar burning on the peanuts. We’re going to pull these. We’ll put them in a bowl, let them cool a little bit and you can put these in an airtight container and they will last a very long time.
Perfect. Hunting, fishing, hiking, just about anything. It makes a great trail mix. And you can customize these any way you want. Whatever you like. All right. Let’s get these off the fire.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups dry roasted peanuts
- 1 to 2 tablespoons of your favorite dry rub, store-bought or homemade, or any spices and/or dried herbs
- 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
Directions
- Heat a cast-iron skillet over a fire, stove or grill over medium heat.
- Put the peanuts in a medium-size bowl and drizzle the oil over the peanuts while stirring. Make sure they are fairly well-coated with the oil.
- Add the seasoning of your choice and stir again to coat the peanuts.
- When well-coated with the seasoning, add the peanuts to the skillet and heat while stirring. It should only take 3 or 4 minutes.
- When the peanuts start to turn a little darker color, remove from the heat and serve while warm. You can also let them cool and keep them in a resealable container at room temperature for days.
Enjoy, and remember to go outside!
Yield: 4 cups peanuts
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 5 minutes
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