Easiest Way to Prepare Southern Boiled Peanuts

Raymond Singleton   13/08/2020 01:00

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  • 🌎 Cuisine: American
  • 👩 1 - 2 servings
  • 😍 Review: 529
  • 😎 Rating: 5
  • 🍳 Category: Dessert
  • 🍰 Calories: 203 calories
  • Southern Boiled Peanuts
    Southern Boiled Peanuts

    Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, southern boiled peanuts. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

    Southern Boiled Peanuts is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Southern Boiled Peanuts is something that I have loved my whole life.

    Boiled peanuts are just raw peanuts that have been boiled in salted water for hours. Great with beer or a cold soda, these salty soft peanuts are totally addictive! It's easy to master this roadside staple at home—boiled peanuts take hardly any effort to make.

    Steps to Make Southern Boiled Peanuts

    To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern boiled peanuts using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.


    Ingredients

    The ingredients needed to make Southern Boiled Peanuts:

    1. Get Hardware
    2. Get 20 quart pot
    3. Get Ingredients
    4. Get 3 (1.5) pound bags of raw shell peanuts
    5. Get 2 1/2 gallon of spring water, for the soak
    6. Get 2 1/2 gallon of spring water, for the boil
    7. Get 2 cups of sea salt
    8. Make ready 2 smoked ham hocks
    9. Prepare 2 jalapeno peppers, split
    10. Make ready 1 can of beer, (your choice)

    Raw denotes peanuts in a semi-mature state, having achieved full size but not being fully dried. Boiled raw peanuts in the shell take on the extreme flavors of dill pickles, jalapenos and New Orleans-style crab boil seasoning. Boiled peanuts are a traditional snack food in southern states. They are an acquired taste, but according to southerners, they are totally addictive.


    Instructions

    Instructions to make Southern Boiled Peanuts:

    1. Add the 3 bags of peanuts to the pot along with the presoak water. Cover with the lid and let sit over night. (24 hours)
    2. Drain the peanuts and set them aside. Wash out the pot, removing any grit from the peanuts.
    3. Add another 2.5 gallons of spring water. Add the salt, ham hocks, peppers, and beer to the pot. Bring to a boil.
    4. Once the boil begins, add the peanuts back in and let them boil for 2 to 4 hours. After the first 2 hours, begin pulling out a peanut every 30 minutes and tasting. Once they get slightly al dente, turn off the heat.
    5. Now here is the trick to making tasty boiled peanuts. Leave the peanuts in the brine while the pot cools. I was told that lets peanuts soak up extra flavor…..and it does.
    6. Grab a another cold beer and enjoy.

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    As simple as that Recipe of Southern Boiled Peanuts

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