Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make candied pecans.
Oh, yeah.
This is a super tasty treat.
You can use it as just a normal snack throughout the day.
You can put it on top of salads, whatever you
want to do.
It's fairly common around the holidays here in
the United States.
But you can make it year round whenever you want.
Super easy to do.
Very few ingredients.
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You'll find a list of the ingredients and their amounts
begin by preheating the oven to two hundred and seventy
five degrees Fahrenheit.
And what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to set this
big bowl here
and we'll grab this bowl.
And this has three fourths of a cup of sugar, white,
granulated sugar.
And I'm going to add one fourth cup of brown sugar.
Put that in there.
I'm going to add about a half a teaspoon of salt.
And then one to two teaspoons of cinnamon.
Yeah, I love cinnamon and then with a whisk, let's just
whisk these together.
Kind of break up any bigger chunks of brown sugar if you
have them, and if you don't want to use brown sugar,
you can just use all white granulated sugar use about a
cup of white granulated sugar.
OK, excellent.
Just set this aside.
And now in my large bowl, I'm going to add.
One egg white, and you can just save the egg yolk from egg
white and put it like an omelet or use it for something else
and we will take this with just whisk this up a little bit just
until nice and frothy.
So just like that, perfect, and now what I'm going to do is
add in the cinnamon and sugar mixture to the egg whites.
And then I'm going to take about a fourth of a cup or four
tablespoons of butter, this is unsalted butter.
You could use salted butter if you want.
If you do use salted butter, then just reduce the amount of
salt that you add by about half.
I'm just going to melt this in the microwave.
You could also do that on the stovetop just
until barely melted.
You don't want the butter to be really hot because then it
might cook the egg whites and we don't want that.
All right, just until barely melted, and then I want
to take the risk and just start whisking that sugar with
those egg whites.
I put in that butter, just add the butter and a little bit.
And then it's going to make a nice little sugar paste super
easy so far and then just take those pecans now.
This is about two and a half cups of bacon, so you can
probably do three or even three and a half cups
and you can switch out the pecans with a different man if
you want, and just put those in there and just use a
spatula like this.
And we want to get those nuts very well coated.
I think I might add just a little bit more,
because everybody has cut more because.
And I quote those extra pounds,
OK, and they're nice and coated, they will look
something like this and then we'll just take a sheet pan and
I had a lined with a silicone baking mat, but you can use
parchment paper as well and not just pour this on their.
And let's just spread this out nice into one layer.
And now we're going to do a similar approach to like
caramel popcorn, if you haven't seen my caramel popcorn video
up there in the I click that you'll find that
caramel popcorn video.
So we'll bake them for about 10 minutes into the oven.
They go, all right.
And when the timer goes off, I'm going to take these out of
the oven
and now you're going to take them and just stir them.
And spread them out again
and then back into the oven to go 10 to 12 minutes, and then
we'll repeat that until it gets nice and hard and I'll show you
what it looks like after about three more times.
All right.
So after about four times a roughly 40 minutes, it'll wind
up looking like this and the sugar mixture will be nice,
kind of empowered.
Are you looking?
And there won't be they won't be burned at all.
So keep an eye on them.
And then the the cons will be roasted.
Pretty awesome.
And now what I'm going to do is just let this sit and cool to
room temperature you.
It'll take about an hour, hour and a half and then we can
break it up and we can serve them onto that step once it's
had time to cool.
You may not take an hour.
It could be about a half hour as well.
And you're ready to eat it.
You can put it wherever you want it.
It'll be nice and hard and crunchy on the outside.
The taste.
Mm hmm.
So, I mean, really easy to make homemade candy, because if I
can do it, you can do it.
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Time for me to dive into this some more.
Oh, yeah.
Mm hmm.
Uh.