How to fry peanuts correctly and tasty? A step-by-step recipe with a photo of roasted peanuts in the microwave. Helpful tips and video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking roasted peanuts in the microwave
- Video recipe
Roasted peanuts are cuddly little nuts that are a valuable nutritious food. You can buy ready-made roasted peanuts in the store and at the market, but it is safer to buy them raw or in their outer skins and roast them at home. Because, firstly, it is not known when and how the commercial roasted peanuts were processed. Secondly, it may contain low-quality nuts, rancid and with an unpleasant odor. Thirdly, homemade roasted peanuts will always be at the highest level: taste, color and aroma are excellent. From a variety of ways to cook peanuts, consider how to roast them in the microwave. A microwave is not an irreplaceable thing, but it is considered the main assistant of housewives. It saves time, quickly reheats food, does not require oil when reheating … Frying peanuts in it is quite simple, especially if you know the peculiarities and subtleties of cooking.
- In the microwave, peanuts are most often fried in their husks and freed from the shell.
- If the peanuts are purchased raw and unpeeled, then the shell will have to be removed.
- If the nuts were peeled from the shell on their own, then they do not need to be washed. Then a glass of peanuts will be cooked in 3-4 minutes.
- If you bought already peeled peanuts in a thin husk, then it is better to rinse and dry them with a paper towel. Then the frying time will be 5-6 minutes.
- Roast peanuts at high power at 700-800 watts.
- An interval is made every minute of roasting to stir the nuts. This should be done with a wooden spatula.
- Cook the nuts in a flat-bottomed container. You can use the microwave drive directly.
- The maximum one-time portion of roasting peanuts is 0.2 kg.
- When roasting nuts in a microwave oven, readiness is not determined by color. Based on color, peanuts may be slightly undercooked. It is better to cool the nut and taste it.
- Do not remove the finished peanuts from the microwave for 10 minutes, during which time it will come to readiness.
- Peanuts are fried without additives, but you can season them with salt a little. Then it will taste better and go well with beer. And if you make it sweet, sprinkled with sugar, then this will complement tea or wine.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 622 kcal.
- Servings - any amount
- Cooking time - 10 minutes
Ingredients:
Peanuts - any quantity
Step by step cooking roasted peanuts in the microwave, recipe with photo:
1. Choose raw peanuts with whole husks, a pleasant pink color and a delicate pleasant scent. Wash it under running water, but not for long, so as not to steam out and not soak. It is most convenient to do this in a fine iron sieve. Dry well with a paper towel and lay out on a flat surface in one layer to dry.
2. Send it to the microwave. Do not cover! Turn on maximum power and cook it for 1-1.5 minutes. Then remove from the microwave, stir with a wooden spatula and return to the oven again. Continue cooking for another 3-4 minutes, stirring and tasting every minute.
3. Leave the finished roasted peanuts in the microwave for 10 minutes. Then lay out on the countertop and leave to cool completely. Peanuts have a high density, so they cool down within 20-30 minutes. Peel the cooled peanuts and serve. If you fry the peanuts incorrectly, they may be overcooked on the outside and raw on the inside.
See also a video recipe on how to cook fried peanuts in the microwave.
