Question of the Week - Green Boiled Peanuts - Judy

[Guest guest]

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> Here in the south, we love to buy green peanuts, which just means young

tender peanuts, still in the hull, from local produce stands. We take them home

and boil them for a couple of hours, in the shell and just in boiling water.

Then add salt to the water. Add more than you would normally need, but because

they have to weep thru the shell to get to the peanut, it take a stronger

concertration of salt in the water. Cover and leave the pot on the hot burner,

but turn it off. After a couple of hourse the salt will have seeped in thru

the shell to the peanut to make it just right.

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Judy, here in south Louisiana, we use crab boil seasoning instead of plain salt.

Gives a real kick to the peanuts. My mother (rest her soul) thought those

peanuts were manna from heaven.

 

d-

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I love boiled peanuts and I have been getting them for all the 30 years I have

been visiting relatives in the different US Southern states. I wish I could get

them in southern california. Such a nutritious snack too! Judy (or anyone that

knows) do you know if they are hard to grow? I am tempted to grow them but

wondering how much space a good patch of peanuts would take. Green shellie

peanuts sound like heaven indeed. By the way, I have always had them with the

crab boil seasoning as Dvonne describes, both in Louisiana and northern FL.

 

, " DVonne Casadaban " <diobahn wrote:

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> > Here in the south, we love to buy green peanuts, which just means young

tender peanuts, still in the hull, from local produce stands. We take them home

and boil them for a couple of hours, in the shell and just in boiling water.

Then add salt to the water. Add more

 

> Judy, here in south Louisiana, we use crab boil seasoning instead of plain

salt. Gives a real kick to the peanuts.

[Guest guest]

I've never tasted anything like them. Very delicious and I thank you again.

Let me know, if you can't find the Pirate's Booty snack I will trade you lol

Donna

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The notion of canned boiled peanuts is strange to me.  Being from south Georgia,

we go out to the fields to get the peanuts and boil them ourselves.  We have

huge bowels full of them during this time of the year in the fridge.  We often

just eat them raw.  They are great either way.  You do have to enjoy the pot

liquor that gets stuck inside the shell.  I see the canned ones in the convience

stores, but never think to buy them because I'm partial to our family way of

cooking them.  I suspose if I got the craving for them out of season, those

would do, but there is something about sitting on the back of the truck picking

the peanuts off the plants, rinsing them, and spending hours boiling them in

huge canning pots barely able to wait for them to be done let alone cool to eat

them.  This season's peanut crop will be much, much smaller due to the late wet

spring that kept the fields from being planted and the samonilla problems with

the peanut

butter planet in Georgia.  We also have to take into consideration that Georgia

produces some 2/3 of the US's peanut crop.  All of this has been a big bummer to

our late summer peanut fun.

 

Dena in GA