Christmas Spiced Nuts Recipe
By Nicola Lando
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10 minutes prep time
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25 minutes cook time
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Easy
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These lightly spiced nuts are perfect for wintry elevenses. If someone is popping round, you can rustle up a delicious store-cupboard treat with just a few minutes of effort. For a more savoury pre-dinner nut, use half the quantity of sugar and replace with half a teaspoon of salt.
Ingredients Serves: 6
- 70g Christmas spiced sugar
- 300g unsalted nuts (hazelnut, almonds, walnuts, pecans, pistachio, cashew)
- 100g dried fruit, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 egg white
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 150°C/300°F/gas 2
- Whisk the egg-white until it starts to foam. Stir in the nuts, dried fruit, and sugar and mix well.
- Spread nut mixture onto a baking sheet. Cook for 20-25 minutes. Stir half way through cooking.
- Leave to cool before serving.
Embrace the Christmas cheer even more, using this traditional festive nutcracker for walnuts, pecans, brazil nuts and more.
About the author
Nicola is co-founder and CEO at Sous Chef. She has worked in food for over ten years.
Nicola first explored cooking as a career when training at Leiths, before spending the next decade in Finance. However... after a stage as a chef at a London Michelin-starred restaurant, Nicola saw the incredible ingredients available only to chefs. And wanted access to them herself. So Sous Chef was born.
Today, Nicola is ingredients buyer and a recipe writer at Sous Chef. She frequently travels internationally to food fairs, and to meet producers. Her cookbook library is vast, and her knowledge of the storecupboard is unrivalled. She tastes thousands of ingredients every year, to select only the best to stock at Sous Chef.
Nicola shares her knowledge of ingredients and writes recipes to showcase those products. Learning from Sous Chef's suppliers and her travels, Nicola writes many of the recipes on the Sous Chef website. Nicola's recipes are big on flavour, where the ingredients truly shine (although that's from someone who cooks for hours each day - so they're rarely tray-bakes!).
