Cashews are one of the healthiest and the most delicious dry fruits, and they are a must to try in winters. Not only do they contain a rich variety of minerals, vitamins, and plant compounds that improves your fitness, but they also come with a much-needed warmth that you need in chilly winter evenings to get the right kind of feeling.
Amazing Recipes of Flavored Cashews
Moreover, cashews are a very good protector of your health. Cashew nuts contain protein and fiber; taking a dozen of cashews on a daily basis can really help the blood and bones. Healthy fats are also found in cashews that promote weight loss and cardio health. It doesn’t end here, cashews are also excellently responsible for the maintenance of blood sugar.
Considering how beneficial cashews are for your health, it is impossible to ignore them. And if you are not ready to rely on cashews for your health, the taste of them is alone too good to say no to.
One amazing thing about cashews is that you can cover them, roast them, and season them with literally any choice of flavor and all of their benefits would still be there. Another amazing thing: the flavor creates a perfect blend of ingredients, but doesn’t override the original taste of cashews, which is the best thing about the flavor recipes listed below. And to be completely honest, the cashews are ten times better with the right flavor.
Well, if the flavor you are trying to create uses chemical ingredients and artificial essences, then it might overpower the authenticity of cashews and also diminish the health-improving capability of cashews, but we do not encourage such flavors. In fact, we are all about flavors that you can simply create at home.
It is true that flavored cashews are available at stores, but if you are making them at home, you have complete freedom, and that is why we prefer making flavors at home and be blunt with every ingredient. In this article, we have three amazing flavored cashew recipes piled for you. Let’s look at them.
Chili and Lime
Chili and lime is another name for sour and spicy flavor—the combination we all know is thrilling. If you want to be a bit thrilling with your snack, chili and lime is the recipe to follow.
To make chili and lime flavored cashews, we will first have to make a liquid sauce in which we will roast cashews. For that sauce, you will need shredded outer skin of lime with some salt added to it. Make the salt-and-lime-skin mixture as powdery as it can get.
Now, add that mixture to a separate bowl and add the following ingredients:
- Chili powder
- Paprika
- Brown sugar
- White egg
Sugar is important to make a balance between spice and sourness. Mix all of the ingredients together, thoroughly. Add lime juice, and mix again. At this point, the sauce will be ready, but it is uncooked.
So, the next part is to cook it with cashews. Add cashews in the sauce and mix them together; the cashews should be totally covered in the egg sauce. Then, spread the sauce-coated cashews on a baking tray and put them in an oven for 20 to 25 minutes. You can take out the tray, toss the cashews around, and put the tray back in the oven after every 5 minutes, so the cashews are of the same color and flavor from all sides.
Salty Cashews
Salt flavor is for people who want to remain calm and collected in their evenings and want a light-flavored dozen of nuts with their warm coffees. Salt is the flavor no one can hate. And making it is as easy as it can be. So, if you have got bulk cashews to flavor, take them out and start following the recipe.
The first step is to boil raw cashews in salty water. Adding 2 tablespoons of sea salt to the water and stirring it will make salty water, and when it is heated, add cashews in it. 2 tablespoons of salt is for like 300 grams of cashews, so make sure you adjust the quantities of ingredients according to the number of cashews you have.
Once you put cashews in the boiling water, it will hardly take two minutes for the cashews to start floating and bouncing on the surface. After that, drain them and dry them with a kitchen towel to remove as much moisture as you can. You can even let them sit for 5 to 15 minutes to make sure the dampness gets eliminated.
At this point, the cashews will be salty. Put them in an oven and bake for 30 minutes at 120 degrees. After the baking, take the cashews out, toss them around, spread them again on the tray, and bake for another 30 minutes. When you will take them out this time, you will sense a salty aroma coming out of the cashews. That will be the hint that your amazing salty cashews are ready.
Honey Roast
Believe it or not, honey is an underrated flavor. Honey roasted cashews are as thrilling as a snack can be and as calm as enjoyable as a daytime munch. Not to mention, they are pretty easy to make.
First, preheat your oven at 170 degrees for at least 10 minutes. Meanwhile, take a pan and add the following ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- A teaspoon of butter
- ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon powder
Mix them well and cook the mixture on low heat for about 2 to 3 minutes. When the butter is dissolved in the honey, take the pan off the stove, add 250 grams of raw cashews, and toss them in a pan to make sure they are coated with the honey sauce.
Next, spread the cashews on a baking tray and put them in a preheated oven for 20 minutes. In this recipe, you will need to take the cashews out every 5 minutes to toss them around and put them back. When the baking process is done, the cashews will be of the same color from all sides. However, they might still have some moisture of the sauce remaining. Let them cool at least for 30 minutes. Then, take a bowl and pour the cashews in, add a tablespoon of ground sugar and ¼ of cinnamon powder. Mix the, well. That way, the cashews will not be sticky anymore and there will be an amazingly sweet coat of flavor on the cashews for you to enjoy.
Conclusion
The three recipes mentioned above are perfect for winter evenings’ enjoyment. Not to mention, they are surprisingly easy to make. Amazing flavors, original taste, health benefits—what’s not to like? You can even be a bit more kitchen-creative and add a couple more ingredients according to your mood and cravings.