Caramelised peanuts

Name: Caramelised peanuts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Cameroun
Ingredients: 400 g — raw shelled food-grade peanuts; 180 g — sugar; 100 ml — drinking water; 1 g — fine salt

Caramelised peanuts — Prepared with raw shelled food-grade peanuts, sugar, drinking water.

Ingredients

400 g — raw shelled food-grade peanuts
180 g — sugar
100 ml — drinking water
1 g — fine salt

Preparation

Mix peanuts, sugar and water in a heavy pan.

Cook over medium heat, stirring, until water evaporates and sugar turns sandy.

Continue gently, stirring, until sugar remelts into a thin amber coating and nuts are roasted.

Spread on a heatproof baking mat, separate with two spatulas and cool completely.

Never touch or taste hot caramel.