John Myers
Whether pure, salted, spicy, or sweet, nuts can be enjoyed in many ways and enrich the menu with their taste and healthy ingredients. Many people like them best when they are crispy. When you roast fresh walnuts, they develop a particularly intense taste due to the roasted aromas. At least as long as the right degree of roasting is maintained and the nuts don’t burn. If you want to toast walnuts in a pan, use a large pan and heat on the stovetop without oil and over medium-low heat. Distribute walnut halves or pieces of the same size in the pan so that they do not overlap. Depending on the size of the kernels, roasting takes between 2 and 5 minutes: Make sure you stay at the stove during this time and shake the pan from time to time or turn the nuts. They burn easily!
For more flavor, you can toast and salt the walnuts. You can do this, for example, by adding salt water to the pan after tanning and letting the steam evaporate. The seasoning remains as a white coating on the kernels. If you want to roast and caramelize walnuts, simply use sugar water instead of salt.
Roast the walnuts in the oven or microwave
Those who prefer to roast their walnuts in the oven will need a little more time. Otherwise, the procedure and principle are similar: crack the nuts if necessary, spread the kernels out on a baking tray lined with baking paper, place them in an oven preheated to 170 to 190 degrees, and roast for 6 to a maximum of 10 minutes. Turn once in between. If some kernels are already very dark, simply take them out and finish baking the rest. If you have a microwave, walnuts can also be roasted in it. Distributed on a plate, you only need about 3-5 minutes at 800 watts. The nuts should be turned in between.
You can also roast the walnuts savory or sweet in the microwave or oven by adding sugar, salt, or spices. Of course, this also works with nut mixtures, in which, for example, almonds, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, or peanuts join the walnuts. Incidentally, not all nuts are nuts: Why isn’t the peanut a nut? – read the answer with us. If you use your own harvest, also note the tips in the article How to dry and store nuts from the garden? And what about shelf life when you roast walnuts? The point here is that you should use them as soon as possible. In this way, you benefit from the full taste and do not run the risk of the delicious seeds going rancid.
