This Spiced Mixed Cocktail Nuts is an excellent addition to your Holiday table. Make it once and serve it thrice. Between Thanksgiving and December Holidays, this recipe for Spiced Mixed Cocktail Nuts will come in handy. Watch the video HERE.
There is something different about this year’s Thanksgiving: The World Cup in Qatar. And for any ex-pat Brazilian living in the U.S.A, there is an additional layer of something different: Brazil will be playing its first game against Serbia on Thursday, November 24th, 2022—Thanksgiving Day.
The family plan is up and exciting, and it includes a lovely Thanksgiving dinner, preceded by this very much anticipated soccer game Brazil X Serbia. You have a good idea of what’s on the menu for dinner time. What’s on the menu for game time?
Spiced Mixed Cocktail Nuts and Cheese Crackers along with Caipirinha, Biscuits, and perhaps a butter board.
I developed these recipes so that YOU can be a Holiday hero. Make them ahead of time with a few entertainment tips, and your pre-dinner bites are under control. I had all these nuts in the refrigerator when I developed this recipe, so I thought adding all of them would add variety. I used: walnuts, pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts, pistachios, pecans, almonds, and cashews. One combination of these nuts will be just fine, or even just one kind of nut. Keep the amount at 1½ lbs of nuts and the recipe will work.
Every Thanksgiving starts with this warm-up; the family, friends, friends of your children, their parents, some strangers, the neighbors, and of course, nuts, cheese, crackers, and biscuits. For one night a year, you can eat these treats, which, well… it will hurt you, but not so badly—that is the magic of Thanksgiving, appetite, and America combined.
This is how I eat Spiced Mixed Cocktail Nuts: Hungry Like a Wolf! Music by Duran Duran. Watch THIS video, clap with me, cook a little, dance a little, sing a little, and let me tell you when you sing and dance while cooking, the food comes out much better!
Spiced Mixed Cocktail Nuts
Serves 15-20 people
Watch video HERE
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 tablespoons date syrup
1 ½ teaspoons pink salt
4 teaspoons brown sugar
2 ¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Aleppo pepper
1½ lbs mixed nuts
Preheat the oven to 350˚F.
Place the unsalted butter, date syrup, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and Aleppo pepper in a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring until homogenous.
Add the nuts to the pan, reduce the heat to low, and mix, using a wooden spoon to enrobe and roast the nuts inside the pan. Once the nuts are completely covered with the syrup mixture and just beginning to roast, spread them onto a baking sheet covered with silpat.
Bake for 8 minutes, stirring and turning the nuts halfway through at 4 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow the nuts to cool completely. Serve them with a fresh herb garnish (a spring of rosemary or thyme).
You can keep these nuts in the refrigerator covered in zip bags and pop them in the oven for 3-5 minutes before serving, just to make them crunchy again.
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