How To Roast and Skin Hazelnuts
Need to know how to roast and skin hazelnuts? Well, this is the post for you! I will walk you step-by-step through the whole process!
Roasted hazelnuts are the bomb.
And I just know you have lain awake at night wondering how you can roast them, skin them and fold them into cookies, granola or biscotti?! Pssshhht I know I have. {It’s good to know I’m not alone!}
This here is the post where the mystery of how to skin those little nuts unfolds, step-by-step… right before your very eyes!!! Okay, so you guys… it’s really ridiculously easy. Roast, shake in a towel.. blah blah. But in the past I might have shied away from a recipe that requires roasting and skinning nuts unless I could see just how it was suppose to look like. Truthfully I would need to see it before my eyes to know I wouldn’t screw it up.
Roasting hazelnuts are 100 times better than regular un-roasted hazelnuts. Something about toasting them brings out their inner-nuttiness and turns them into something special. BTW I can so pop these suckers like candy.
So go grab your ah, err {hazel}nuts… for roasted hazelnuts will change your life. forever.
To start you’ll need hazelnuts, a sheet pan, a clean kitchen towel and an oven. Preheated to 350 degrees.
Pour the nuts out onto the rimmed sheet pan.
Spread them out evenly and pop the pan into your preheated oven and roast for 4 minutes.
After the first 4 minutes, you can see the skin starting to crackle and peel. It’s something to do with water evaporation and nut shrinking {don’t laugh}.
Toss them around and pop them back into the oven for 4 more minutes. Of course you could just shake the pan and not dirty a spatula.
Repeat this stem 2 to 3 more times until the nuts are fragrant.
Pour the nuts in the center of your clean kitchen towel.
Twist them up and shake them with some pizzazz (truly wish I had a video of me doing this, not) so the nuts rub against each other, removing their skin.
It’s really that easy.
Handpick the nuts out of the towel, don’t worry about the little skin-dust and just leave the flaky skin behind.
That’s all folks! Now you know how to roast and skin hazelnuts. Easy right?
Store them in an airtight container, I like to refrigerate mine so they don’t go all rancid on me. They should last for a couple of months! Hmmm now what should I make with these?
Enjoy! And if you give this How To Roast and Skin Hazelnuts tutorial a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!
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I think hazelnuts are my favourite nuts by far – they work so well in sweet and savoury dishes. Can’t wait to see what you make with these!
Roasted nuts are always so much better! Great tip…love how easy this is!
I remember my grandma’s bowl of mixed nuts on the coffee table at all times and my grandpa and I would duke it out over the hazelnuts – they’re totally my fave!! This is so cool Laur, I’m gonna try it!
simplyscratch replied: — November 7th, 2013 @ 10:18 am
Thanks my friend! I really didn’t start liking hazelnuts until I was introduced to Nutella a few years ago! What took me so long??
Make Nocciola Baci! visit my blog post where I share an even easier way to skin hazelnuts.
Patricia @ ButterYum
http://butteryum.blogspot.com/2013/05/nocciola-baci-hazelnut-kisses.html
Good info. I hadn’t eaten hazelnuts until I married – my husband’s family uses hazelnuts in a lot of recipes.