Re: [CH] Any ideas for salvaging these pecans?
Beth (beth@bayoutraders.com)
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:23:16 -0600
I have had these same failures with trying to spice pecans....I learned
a secret this Christmas from a friend....toast the pecans first then add
the melted butter and seasoning and let drain on paper towels...worked
like a champ!
My first thought was to grind them up too but to use for some savory
appetizer-like things....like to roll a giant cheese ball in or cream in
with butter and/or cream cheese tanted a favorite hot sauce for a
spreadable.
Beth in Texas
David Gallardo wrote:
> How about grinding them & using them for breading something like catfish?
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>> I have a pound of recipe-gone-wrong spiced pecans I'd like to salvage.
>> Anyone know of a recipe to use a LOT of pecans? I was thinking of
>> something like a pecan pie --but NOT the one with the sweet-sweet-sweet
>> karo syrup filling-- only because it would use a lot, but a savory dish
>> would be welcome, too.
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>> I tried a recipe for spiced nuts and it didn't turn out that well.
>> 'Course, I didn't follow the recipe exactly, either, so can't put the
>> fault
>> there.
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>> Recipe called for 1/4 cup of a specific commercial chile powder blend
>> plus
>> 1/2 tsp cayenne, neither of which I had. So I mixed up almost half and
>> half of Jim's New Mexican and Jim's Chile de Arbol, plus a little
>> dark red
>> ancho (aging powder from something like McCormicks whatever), plus a
>> little
>> pasilla powder I discovered after mixing the rest. Something of a
>> b*stard
>> blend, if you will. Probably not a nice thing to do to those chile
>> powders. (sorry, Jim). There was some sugar in the mix, but the nuts
>> aren't very sweet. I didn't want this first batch to be all that
>> hot, so I
>> restrained myself from using chipotle or savina. Huh! I was so
>> successful
>> at reducing the heat, these things may as well not be called spicy,
>> in my
>> opinion.
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>> Think I slightly overcooked them, too, which means probably should
>> not put
>> them in the oven again unless they are in something wet! LOL. They
>> taste
>> "okay," but, honestly, not good enough to enjoy munching as a snack. On
>> the other hand, they are not so bad that I want to pitch them. The
>> pecans
>> alone cost $7. My cheap side insists I try to make something edible
>> out of
>> them.
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>> Any ideas, anyone? I know we have lots of great cooks on this list.
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>> CBuzz
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