What Is Hazelnuts (filberts) and How Can I Use It?

Here's everything worth knowing about hazelnuts (filberts) and how to pick it, what it is, how to store it, and what to use instead, plus 229 recipes to cook tonight.

What is hazelnuts (filberts)?

Hazelnuts are extensively used in confectionery to make praline and also used in combination with chocolate for chocolate truffles and products. Hazelnut oil, pressed from hazelnuts, is strongly flavoured and used as a cooking oil.

Hazelnuts are rich in protein and unsaturated fat. Moreover, they contain significant amounts of thiamine and vitamin B₆, as well as smaller amounts of other B vitamins. Additionally, 1 cup (237 ml) of hazelnut flour has 20 g of carbohydrates, 12 g of which are fibre. and

Hazelnut has a significant place among the types of dried nut in terms of nutrition and health because of the special composition of fats (primarily oleic acid), protein, carbohydrates, vitamins (vitamin E), minerals, dietary fibres, phytosterol (beta-cytosterol) and antioxidant phenolics.

The nutritional and sensory properties of hazelnut make it a unique and ideal material for food products. Hazelnuts are a good source of energy with their 60.5% fat content.

Nutrition

Where found

Hazelnuts (filberts) is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.

Food group

Hazelnuts (filberts) is a member of the Nut and Seed Products US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.

How much does hazelnuts (filberts) weigh?

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Recipes using hazelnuts (filberts)

There are 229 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Hazelnut Brown Butter

Caramelized Brussels sprouts roasted with toasted hazelnuts in nutty brown butter. Quick high-heat side dish with crispy edges and tender centers in under 25 minutes.

Superb Chocolate Hazelnut Ice Cream

Love the deep-rich chocolate taste, and the roasted hazelnut just added in another kick. Absolutely to die for.

Buckwheat, Beet & Manchego Salads

Buckwheat, Beet and Manchego Salads

Favorite Linzer Cookies

Crisp nut cookies sandwiched together with a raspberry filling, which peeks through the cutout in the top cookie.

Chocolate Raspberry Toasted Hazelnut Ice Cream

Chocolate Raspberry Toasted Hazelnut Ice Cream recipe

Fingerling Potatoes with Hazelnut & Sage

A fairly simple yet delicious way to cook these beautiful fingerling potatoes. Sage and hazelnuts were deliciously combined with the potatoes. An excellent side dish.

Cranberry Nut Biscotti

Cranberry nut biscotti are crunchy Italian twice-baked cookies studded with toasted hazelnuts and tart dried cranberries. No butter, so they're properly crisp and dunkable, with a festive red-and-gold look.

Hazelnut Chunk Brownies*

Fudgy hazelnut chunk brownies loaded with toasted hazelnuts and chopped semisweet chocolate in a cocoa-rich, butter-heavy batter. Barely set centers, dense and deeply chocolatey.

Hazelnut Squash Soup

Creamy winter squash soup with finely chopped hazelnuts, onions, and a splash of sherry. The nuts add nutty body without any dairy thickener. A simple autumn first course.

Chocolate Scotch Truffles

Chocolate Scotch truffles wrap toasted hazelnuts in a whiskey-spiked dark chocolate ganache, then double-dip them in melted chocolate and roll in cocoa powder. A grown-up holiday confection with three textures in every bite.

Chocolate Vanilla Hazelnut Ice Cream

We have been making several ice cream this summer, this chocolate hazelnut ice cream tastes heavenly delicious. Creamy, nutty and vanilla-y, you can find chunks of chocolate in every bite.

Apple-Hazelnut Muffins

Apple-hazelnut muffins with ground hazelnuts replacing half the flour and chewy dried apple pieces folded in. A small-batch six-muffin recipe ready in 30 minutes for breakfast or coffee break.

Broccoli Hazelnut Pesto

Broccoli and hazelnuts make this nutty, tangy and tasty pesto, it can be mixed into pasta or spread onto bread, wraps. And it is so quick and easy to make.

Hazelnut Pumpkin Bread

Hazelnut pumpkin bread bakes up moist and warmly spiced with toasted hazelnuts, raisins, and four classic fall spices. Three loaves from one batch, ideal for gifting.

Christmas Nutty Linzer Cookies

Christmas Linzer cookies, tender ground-hazelnut shortbread sandwiched with raspberry jam and dusted with powdered sugar, jam peeking through a cut-out window. A nutty, festive take on the Austrian classic.

Chocolate Hazelnut & Cherry Bark

Make these nutty and chocolaty bars for a change from classic Christmas cookies. They are easy to make and come out addictively delicious. Be sure to make enough, not only kids love them, grown-ups also can't stop reaching more.

Quinoa, Spinach & Hazelnuts Stuffed Peppers

Toasted quinoa, sauteed spinach, hazelnuts and sun-dried tomato are tossed with salty feta cheese and extra-virgin olive oil, then stuffed into colorful sweet bell peppers. Not only look divine, but they also taste delicious.

Coffee Streusel Bundt Cake with Coffee Glaze & Hazelnuts Topping

Coffee cake that has coffee in the cake and in the glaze! Of course you can always enjoy a slice with a cup of coffee. Perfect as a morning or afternoon pick me up.

Coffee Streusel Bundt Cake with Coffee Glaze & Hazelnuts Topping

Coffee cake that has coffee in the cake and in the glaze! Of course you can always enjoy a slice with a cup of coffee. Perfect as a morning or afternoon pick me up.

Sugar Snap Peas with Browned Butter, Hazelnuts & Sage

Toasted hazelnuts and sage are cooked in browned butter, then toss in blanched sugar snap peas. This deliciously refreshing recipe makes your sugar snap peas sing.

Cappuccino Biscotti

Outstanding and perfect with a cup of coffee in the morning.

Low Fat & Whole Wheat Chocolate Hazelnut Tart

Smooth and beautiful chocolate tart, some chocolate swirls on top with some toasted hazelnuts, you can serve it with some whipped cream or vanilla ice-cream.

Broccoli Pesto Pasta

This turned out great. The pesto is absolutely perfect and it sticks to the pasta much better than traditional pesto. The bow ties are a great match but I'm sure any pasta would work too. Spirals I think would really hold the pesto. It was fairly quick and easy to make, and only used one pot plus the food processor.

Broccoli Pesto Pasta

This turned out great. The pesto is absolutely perfect and it sticks to the pasta much better than traditional pesto. The bow ties are a great match but I'm sure any pasta would work too. Spirals I think would really hold the pesto. It was fairly quick and easy to make, and only used one pot plus the food processor.

Swiss Chard, Red Pepper & Goat Cheese Pasta

Hearty swiss chard, crunchy red pepper, and creamy goat cheese make the pasta load with flavors. A simple and delicious week-day meal that everybody enjoys.

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