Add making these candied pecans to your to-do listing this season. You’ll be so glad you probably did. Initially, the odor of the cinnamon and maple and the toasted nuts is like wrapping your self up in a comfortable fluffy sweater. But in addition as a result of you possibly can bundle them as much as give as a present, nibble on them for a snack or you possibly can add them to a salad like my Vacation Kale Salad with Roasted Delicata Squash for crunch and candy and spicy taste. Simply beware they’re addictively good!

What Are Spiced Nuts

• Spiced Nuts is a catchall phrase for nuts which have been seasoned and roasted. They range from unsweetened to coating in a crisp sugary coating.
• Unsweetened spiced nuts have oil on them to coat the nuts so the herbs and spices and salt can follow the nuts as they roast.
• Sometimes Spiced nuts are candy and have heat spices similar to cinnamon and nutmeg.
• There are additionally candied nuts which have candy and glossy coating like my Chili Chocolate Spiced Pecans.
• After which there are Sugared Nuts which have a crispy coating made with egg whites.

This recipe is sort of a mixture of candy and scorching candied nuts and sugared nuts. They’ve the crispy coating of sugared nuts, however they’ve candy and scorching spices too!

How To Make This Recipe

Earlier than you Start

• Begin by preheating your oven to 350 levels.
• You’ll must line your baking sheet with a silpat or silicone baking mat. In the event you don’t have one, generously grease your sheet pan.

Utilizing Egg Whites in Spiced Nuts

The very particular a part of this recipe is the crispy coating which is created from crushed egg whites. I do know it sounds actually unusual, however they work with the sugar to create a skinny, laborious and crispy sugary coating across the nut and in each nook and cranny.

Ideas For Beating Egg Whites

• Use a clear bowl and a clear whisk or egg beaters. Any hint of yolk or fats will stop the whites from whipping.
• Room temperature egg whites whip higher and sooner than chilly egg whites. To shortly heat up your whites you possibly can set the unbroken egg right into a mug of heat faucet water for a pair minutes. Whereas the oven preheats and also you’re gathering your components, strive it!
• You solely must whip them till they’re foamy. It shouldn’t be essential to beat them to comfortable peaks.

Add Pecans To Whites

Subsequent take your nuts (I used Pecans, however any form of nut works on this recipe) and stir them with the whites.

Enable the whites to soak into all of the nooks and crannies, as a result of they are going to make the spices and sugar follow it, and that’s what is going to make the scrumptious sugar and spiced coating!

Add Sugar and Spices

Subsequent you’ll sprinkle on the sugar and spices. Then stir it to coat the nuts within the spices and sugar. It will cling to the egg whites. Right here is the combo I used:

• granulated maple sugar, coconut sugar or white sugar
• coarse kosher salt
• floor cinnamon
• floor chipotle chili or cayenne (or to style)
• floor allspice

Seasoning Variations

You may also give you your personal variation of spices.

• In the event you can not discover maple sugar, which is what I like to recommend you need to use white sugar or coconut sugar.
• Additionally, when you’re not a fan of scorching and spicy meals then you possibly can most definitely skip the chili.
• You should use 1 half of teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice for the cinnamon, chipotle and allspice.

Tips on how to Roast Spiced Nuts with Egg Whites

Unfold the coated nuts out onto the silpat or ready baking sheet and use a spatula to separate them. You need the recent air within the oven to flow into throughout them to dry them out.

Roast them for 7 to eight minutes. Be aware that smaller or bigger nuts will want timing adjustment, so to know if yours are able to be stirred, check out them. They need to look dry at this level.

Stir them effectively after which return them to the oven to roast for three to six minutes longer. Along with the spices, it is possible for you to to odor the toasted nuts too. They are going to darken barely, however don’t allow them to darken an excessive amount of because the coating makes it laborious to inform simply how toasted they’re.

Allow them to cool fully on the baking sheet.

How To Retailer Spiced Nuts

As soon as they’re fully cool, you possibly can switch them to jars or resealable containers. Preserve them at room temperature for per week. Freeze them for 1 month.

Why Spiced Nuts Get Sticky

In the event you attempt to seal them into jars earlier than they’re fully cool, they are going to grow to be sticky and free their crispy texture.

Sometimes, when the air has loads of moisture, they are going to grow to be sticky. That is because of the sugars within the coating pulling the moisture into them. Sometimes in chilly winter climate this isn’t an issue.