Thread: Boiled P-Nuts

Rango was wondering if you could give up some boiled p-nut secrets. How long, how hot, ect. any spices you may use to liven them up?

For a bushel I use(1) box of salt,1 1/2 cups of sugar, lots of water, slow boil for 3hrs=.... 2 1/2 if you want them a little firmer.

i put about 4 pounds in a pressure cooker, add some salt,(no too much tho). i cook em at 15 lbs for an hour. cut heat off and let cooker cool. add some more water and cooke em another hour at 15 lbs. the first hour cooking the nuts absorb the water, then when i cook em the second hour, the nuts get juicy inside. i used to cook em in a crock pot over night on high. that gets em juicy to. i never had much luck boiling. couldnt get em as juicy as i like em. the nuts would cook, however they would not be juicy but on the dry side.. when i was a kid in south ga, just about everyweekend somewhere someone would be boiling pnuts. folks would gather in and it was a common sat evening social event back then. i dont know if they still do stuff like that or not.

rango, after you get through boiling them let the water cool off, they'll absorb the water back inside the shell and get juicy.

Originally Posted by RKT

rango, after you get through boiling them let the water cool off, they'll absorb the water back inside the shell and get juicy.

yeah, thats what i done on the second cooking. i let em set a few hours till they cooled. the first time i boiled em, the cooker was allmost full of nuts and the nuts absorbed most the water so i added more till full mark on the cooker and let em cook the second time and then cool. they was good and juicy. bi-lo in york has giant pnuts in a bin. scoop all you want. the wife got me some and i boiled them a couple days ago and finished em off this am...:D

Those boiled peanuts have raised 3 children and put them in college for me. So Pnuts been very very good to me
To cook small amounts the pressure cooker is the ticket. Rango has it right.
I use 100 pounds of dry peanuts, 1/2 gallon peanut oil and 10 lbs of salt per pot. I boil the dry ones that people say ya can't boil..LOL People ask me sometimes are they green? I just say taste one...they say yep them are great... Then I tell them they are not green..sneaky ain't I. I would have to triple my price to sell green nuts. They are like gold. Plus ya can't get them year round so I keep the taste the same with the dry nuts.. I started Smitty's Peanuts and produce in 1983. Been at it every since...I still love to eat them too!
here is my po ole wife and daughter out there slavin for me a few years ago..
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when you make that many at one time smitty, how do you cook em and how long? and the pnut oil. what you using it for?

about 8-10 hours... The oil makes the dry ones taste better. Gives the nut more taste..I have tried them both ways and they seem better to all with the oil..