hello and happy friday everybody if you caught last week's video you saw the harvest of the
peanuts that i grew this year and i mentioned in that video that i was planning on roasting those
so today i thought i would share with you the process that i used to brine and roast
my home grown peanuts
i started with approximately two pounds of peanuts that i had harvested
and dried so i'm not actually sure how this would work with green peanuts straight
out of the garden so if anyone has brined and roasted green peanuts i'd love to hear from you
but i did dry these first and to start the process i filled a large stock pot with 16 cups of water
i brought that to a boil and then added one cup of salt
and stirred it until it was completely dissolved
next i removed the pot from heat and dumped in all of my peanuts i stirred them all well to make
sure that they all got thoroughly coated in that brine solution next i set a mixing bowl filled
with water on top of the peanuts to keep them all weighted down and submerged in that brine
you could use a pie plate or basically anything else heavy enough to keep the peanuts
submerged underneath the brine you'll want to let the peanuts soak for at least
six hours i actually let mine go overnight because i wanted to ensure that they were plenty salty
and you can stir them once or twice during the soaking period just to
ensure that everything is getting evenly soaked in the brine after the peanuts
were done soaking i dumped them all into a colander and let all of the brine drain off
and then the peanuts needed to dry so again using the dehydrator was the easiest option for me i
just dumped all the peanuts in a single layer on drying racks popped them in the dehydrator
and dried them for about four hours on medium heat alternately if you don't have a dehydrator you
could let them air dry at room temperature or put a fan on them to speed up that process but that
could take anywhere from two to three days kind of depending on what your humidity in your home is
once the peanuts are dry you'll want the shells to be nice and hard and crunchy and that little skin
or membrane that surrounds the peanuts themselves to be dry and papery they're ready for roasting
i place the peanuts on a baking sheet in a single layer and pop
them into a preheated 350 degree fahrenheit oven
roasting will typically take anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes just kind of depending on how
roasty you want your peanuts to end up and i just stirred them a couple times during the roasting
roasting process and after about 10 minutes i was checking them every five minutes or so just
pulling a peanut out breaking it open giving it a taste test to see if they were as done as i wanted
now keep in mind that peanuts will continue to roast a little bit after you pull them out of
the oven and as they cool down so ideally you want to pull them from the oven just before
they're at that perfect level of roastiness once they're roasted to your liking pull them out of
the oven let them cool completely and then they can be stored in an airtight container
now that is if you can keep from eating them all first they can be stored in an airtight
container for about a month or so but any longer than that i recommend popping them in the fridge
or the freezer for long-term storage alternately you can shell them and grind them into homemade
peanut butter now you guys will have to excuse me while i have myself a little snack here
thanks for watching and i'll see you next time