Recipe: Oishi Southern Boiled Peanuts For Vegan's Friend

Southern Boiled Peanuts. It's easy to master this roadside staple at home—boiled peanuts take hardly any effort to make. Learn how to season this Southern kitchen staple in five easy steps. Boiled peanuts are just raw peanuts that have been boiled in salted water for hours.

These are a lovely, salty treat packed with flavor, are soft to the chew and are just fun to eat. You can make them spicy, zesty, mild. Phyllis shows how to make delicious boiled peanuts in the crockpot. You can Have Southern Boiled Peanuts using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Southern Boiled Peanuts

1. It's of Hardware.
2. Lets Go Prepare 20 quart of pot.
3. What You needis of Ingredients.
4. What You needis 3 of (1.5) pound bags of raw shell peanuts.
5. It's 2 1/2 gallon of of spring water, for the soak.
6. Lets Go Prepare 2 1/2 gallon of of spring water, for the boil.
7. It's 2 of cups of sea salt.
8. It's 2 of smoked ham hocks.
9. What You needis 2 of jalapeno peppers, split.
10. Lets Go Prepare 1 of can of beer, (your choice).

This simple recipe uses raw, dried, in the shell Virginia peanuts. Boiled raw peanuts in the shell take on the extreme flavors of dill pickles, jalapenos and New Orleans-style crab boil seasoning. Our step-by-step, photo illustrated recipe for Southern Boiled Peanuts. Grab yourself an ice cold Nehi Soda and lets go to the drive-in.

Southern Boiled Peanuts step by step

1. Add the 3 bags of peanuts to the pot along with the presoak water. Cover with the lid and let sit over night. (24 hours).
2. Drain the peanuts and set them aside. Wash out the pot, removing any grit from the peanuts..
3. Add another 2.5 gallons of spring water. Add the salt, ham hocks, peppers, and beer to the pot. Bring to a boil..
4. Once the boil begins, add the peanuts back in and let them boil for 2 to 4 hours. After the first 2 hours, begin pulling out a peanut every 30 minutes and tasting. Once they get slightly al dente, turn off the heat..
5. Now here is the trick to making tasty boiled peanuts. Leave the peanuts in the brine while the pot cools. I was told that lets peanuts soak up extra flavor.....and it does..
6. Grab a another cold beer and enjoy..

They may take a few hours to complete, but the reward of popping. Boiled peanuts are a traditional snack food in southern states. They are an acquired taste, but according to southerners, they are totally addictive. Boiled peanuts are popular in some places where peanuts are common. Fully mature peanuts do not make good quality boiled peanuts; rather raw or green ones are used.