Delicious and healthy roasted candies made from seeds and walnuts are not difficult to make at home on your own. Use a step-by-step recipe with a photo and pamper your family not only with a tasty, but also a healthy delicacy.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Roasted nuts are a nut mixture in a frozen sugar syrup, which is made either from sugar or from a mixture of sugar and honey. This delicious sweetness can be easily and quickly prepared at home. Literally half an hour and roasted candies will be ready. In addition, the process of making them is not laborious at all, and the delicacy does not contain any harmful substances for health. It contains no dyes, preservatives or harmful chemical additives. As a basis, you can take walnuts, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, peanuts, oatmeal, hazelnuts, cashews, etc. Today we will use sunflower seeds and walnuts for sweets, the beneficial properties of which are beyond doubt.
The kernels of these fruits contain a large amount of trace elements, healing vitamins and biologically active substances. These dishes are useful for absolutely everyone, especially for children, the elderly and people with weakened immunity. However, remember that sweets are high in calories. Therefore, it is not recommended to use them a lot, especially for those who are afraid of gaining weight. Depending on the desired result of sweets, caramel is prepared for them on a different basis. For example, if you want the roasted nuts to be hard, use only sugar. For softer candies, use equal proportions of sugar and honey. In any case, whatever candy you make, you will most likely stop buying them in stores.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 565 kcal.
- Servings - 100 g
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Walnut kernels - 50 g
- Peeled sunflower seeds - 50 g
- Honey - 1 tablespoon
- Odorless vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons
Step-by-step preparation of roasted candies from seeds and walnuts, a recipe with a photo:
1. Peel the walnuts and lightly heat them in a clean, dry frying pan. Roasted nuts can be left intact or broken into smaller pieces with a rolling pin.
2. Also roast sunflower seeds in a clean and dry skillet over medium heat. Stir them occasionally to prevent them from burning. Since they are fried without husks, they can burn very quickly.
3. Pour sugar and honey into a saucepan.
4. Place it on the stove, turn on medium heat and stir.
5. Heat the mass to completely dissolve the sugar crystals, and the mixture has acquired a golden hue.
6. Reduce heat to slowest and add roasted seeds to saucepan. If you remove the pan from the heat, the mass will cool down very quickly, become solid, and it will be impossible to work with it further.
7. Then add walnuts to the caramel.
8. Stir until each core is covered with sweet caramel.
9. By this time grease the parchment paper with a thin layer of vegetable oil. Spread the mass of nuts and seeds on it. Tamp it well. Do this quickly as the mixture hardens quickly. Cut the mass while still hot with a knife into the desired pieces. Although after solidification, you can simply break the frozen layer.
10. Leave the roasted nuts to cool for 15 minutes in the refrigerator. After this time, it can be served for tea.
See also a video recipe on how to cook roasted nuts at home.
