Make it yourself: spicy nut mix
Delicious, a bowl of salted nuts at our editorial office, where everything from the humble peanut to the luxurious macadamia disappears into our mouths. If this sounds familiar, it’s high time to make your own nut mix. Hide it well, because before you know it, your colleagues, family members and friends will have gobbled it all up.
Nuts are packed with fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Nuts are also high in unsaturated fat. They are excellent sources of protein and give you an enormous amount of energy. What is the advantage of making your own nut mix? You can completely adapt it to your taste. Besides the essential salt for this snack, you can add other ingredients to your heart’s content. As a lover of spicy food, I add a generous amount of cayenne pepper to my nuts. Experiment with additions such as thyme or rosemary (dried or fresh), turmeric, coriander powder or even a touch of sugar for a caramelized coating.
Creating your own nut mix
Another advantage is that you can select only your favorite nuts. If, at the end of your snacking session, only pecans are left, simply leave them out. Use the nuts you like: cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts—the choice is yours. What are you waiting for? Fire up the oven and create your own personalized nut mix, mmm!
How to make spicy nut mix
Preheat the oven to 150ºC. Mix all the ingredients together and spread them over a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for approx. 15 minutes, stirring halfway through.
You didn’t know this about nuts
A fun fact to share while enjoying your homemade nut mix. Nuts grow on trees. They are dry fruits, enclosed by a pericarp. This is a hard, woody shell, which usually contains a single nut. Fun fact: peanuts are actually not nuts, but legumes, and almonds are officially fruit. Nevertheless, peanuts and almonds are classified as nuts because of their properties.
