Smoked Chipotle Nuts

[Amazen1]

Hey Guys
Here's my 1st real post on PelletSmoking.com

I made some Sweet-N-Hot Smoked Chipotle Nuts
They turned out AWESOME!


Sweet-N-Hot Chipotle Seasoning
40 oz. Premium Mixed Nuts
¾ oz. Chipotle Powder
¼ oz. Garlic Powder
1 oz. Sugar
2 TBSP Olive Oil


Drizzle 2 TBSP Olive Oil onto 40 oz. Premium Mixed Nuts, and mix well.
Coat premium nuts with Chipotle Seasoning Mix and mix well
I covered the cooling racks with cheese cloth, and spread the nuts over the racks
Smoked with Pecan Pellets @ 180° for 1 hour, and turned it up to 250 for another hour

They were so good, I went out and got another 40oz. jar of premium nuts, 2# of cashews, 2# of pecans, 2# of almonds walnuts. I vac sealed them into 8oz packages.

Notice the Cheese Cloth catching the smoke color?


Smoked with Pecan Pellets @180° for 1 hour and then 250° for 1 hour

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Done and Ready for Taste Testing

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[FLBentRider]

Those look great. I am SO trying that.

 

[MossyMO]

Don't take this wrong Todd, but those are some great looking nuts and I like the chipotle flavor idea!

 

[Amazen1]

It's part of the territory, when a guy post a Nut Recipe!
The sweet/hot works great together
If you wanna keep the great smokey flavor, vac seal the extras

TJ

 

[CarterQ]

Looks killer!

 

[Chili Head]

I'll be doing these! Thanks for the recipe!

 

[Tatonka3A2]

Didn't do so well the first time we tried to smoke nuts.... need to try again. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[TentHunter]

I like it!

 

[Big Poppa]

nice nice nice

 

[ACW3]

Lookin' real good.

Art

 

[Rip]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

 

[bflodan]

That in now on my to do list! Those look really good!

 

[Deb]

nice.........

 

[ORSmoke]

Has anyone tried smoking raw almonds? Any successful recipes to share?

 

[FLBentRider]

There is a recipe from the book Charcuterie that is pretty good.
(This is copied from the Bradley forum recipe site)

Ingredients:

* 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
* 1 Tbsp finely ground kosher or sea salt
* 2 tsp chile powder
* 1 tsp ground black pepper
* 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
* 1/2 tsp garlic powder
* 1 pound almonds

Directions:

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
2. The recipe I have calls for placing all dry ingredients in a spice or coffee mill and grind them as fine as possible to make them adhere better to the nuts.
* I used an electric coffee bean grinder which worked well to powderize the dry ingredients.
3. Pour ground spices into a large bowl, and combine with oil. Mix well and set aside.
4. I don't have the fancy mesh grates for my OBS so I just covered the original grates with foil and poked lots of holes with a corn cob holder. I did this to two trays and loaded them up with 12 ounces of almonds a piece.
5. Into the OBS they went, using my cold smoking box set-up. I cold smoked them around 80-90 degrees F for 2 hours with 6 hickory bisquettes.
6. Out of the smoker after a 2 hour cold smoke and into a bowl with the spice mix. Mix well so that the almonds are evenly coated.
7. Spread them on a baking sheet, place in oven, and roast for 10-15 minutes, stirring several times. Remove from oven, taste and add additional salt/seasoning if needed.
8. After cooling, store the almonds in an airtight container.