Nuts 4 Nuts Roasted Peanuts

For this month’s blogging marathon, I opted to blog in last two weeks of the month. This week my theme is regional cuisine and picked New York cuisine or food from New York. For day one, I have a street food from New York City. If you visited New York City, you probably must have noticed Nuts 4 Nuts food cart all across Manhattan, specially in midtown. These carts sell honey roasted nuts. Peanuts, almonds and cashews are the common nuts sold but I once remember seeing coconut as well. However, it is not common and that was the only time I saw coconut at this one particular cart.

Nuts are roasted on the cart and sold in small wax paper bags. Each bag is a dollar or 2. I only tasted peanuts and are not very sweet. Peanuts are slightly roasted and is a great snack. If one is thinking of substituting these nuts as a dessert, then one will be disappointed. I found a copycat version of honey roasted peanuts and made half the recipe, followed it to the T. I was tempted to add honey but stuck to sugar.

Source: Top Secrete Recipes
Cooking Time: 5 - 8 minutes
Yields: ¾ cup

Ingredients:

1 tbsp. Water
2 tbsp. Sugar
¾ cup Unroasted Peanuts

Preparation:

Take water and sugar in a pan and bring it to a boil on medium flame.
When sugar is dissolved, add nuts and stir occasionally.
In about 2 minutes, sugar will begin to coat the nuts. At this point stir vigorously.
In about a minute, syrup will evaporate and sugar will crystallize on the peanuts.
Once the sugar coats all the nuts, turn off the heat, continue stirring until the sugar crystallizes on the nuts, then caramelizes and turns light brown.
Transfer the nuts to a plate and let cool.

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