What Are Peanuts and How Can I Use Them?
If peanuts have turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use them with confidence and how to choose them, cook them, store them, what to substitute, and 437 recipes to try them in.
What are peanuts?
Peanuts are known by many other local names, like earthnuts , ground nuts , goober peas , monkey nuts , pygmy nuts and pig nuts.
Popular confections include salted peanuts, peanut butter sandwiches, candy bars, and cups), peanut brittle, and shelled nuts (plain/roasted). Salted peanuts are usually roasted in oil and packed in retail size, plastic bags or hermetically sealed cans.
Dry roasted, salted peanuts are also marketed in significant quantities. Peanuts are often a major ingredient in mixed nuts because of their inexpensiveness compared to Brazil nuts, cashews, walnuts, and so on.
The primary use of peanut butter is in the home, but large quantities are also used in the commercial manufacture of sandwiches, candy, and bakery products.
Boiled peanuts are a preparation of raw, unshelled green peanuts boiled in brine and typically eaten as a snack in the southern United States where most peanuts are grown.
Peanut flour is lower in fat than peanut butter, and is popular with chefs because its high protein content makes it suitable as a flavor enhancer. Peanut flour is used as a gluten-free solution.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup (146g)Where found
Peanuts are usually found in the snacks section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Peanuts are a member of the Legumes and Legume Products US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much do peanuts weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | 146 grams |
| 1 ounce | 28 grams |
Related
Legumes and Legume Products
| In Chinese: | 花生米 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | cacahuètes | |
| en español: | cacahuates |
Recipes using peanuts
There are 437 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Homemade Peanut Cookies
Homemade peanut cookies bake crisp butter dough laced with a shot of coffee and crowned with roasted peanuts. A simple cut-out cookie with a subtle mocha edge and a salty-sweet crunch on top.
Almost Whole Wheat Choco Banana Peanut Cookies
Almost Whole Wheat Choco Banana Peanut Cookies recipe
Delicious Peanut Cookies
Old-school peanut cookies packed with chopped peanuts, brown sugar, and vanilla. Crisp-edged, chewy-centered cookies that taste like a peanut butter cookie's nuttier cousin.
Lovable Peanut Butter Cookies
Flourless peanut butter cookies made with just peanut butter, sugar, egg whites, and chopped peanuts. Naturally gluten-free with no butter or flour. Crisp edges, chewy peanut centers.
Lovable Peanut Butter Cookies
Flourless peanut butter cookies made with just peanut butter, sugar, egg whites, and chopped peanuts. Naturally gluten-free with no butter or flour. Crisp edges, chewy peanut centers.
Honey-Nut Peanut Cookies
Peanut butter cookies loaded with chopped honey-roasted peanuts and built on honey-nut peanut butter for a sweet-salty double hit. Crisp edges, soft middle, ready in half an hour.
Special Peanut Butter Cookies
These Special Peanut Butter Cookies combine creamy peanut butter, rich chocolate chips, crunchy peanuts, and miniature peanut butter cups for a delightful treat. Perfectly soft with a slight crisp edge, they’re a peanut butter lover’s dream!
So Yummy Peanut Butter Cookies
Lighter peanut butter cookies that bake in 7 minutes flat. Reduced-fat peanut butter, a tablespoon of oil instead of a stick of butter, and a sugar-rolled crackle top. Tender, chewy, lower in fat than the classic.
Just Good Cookies
Just good cookies live up to their name with peanut butter, oats, and chocolate chips in one chewy package. The kind of pantry-clean-out cookie that takes optional add-ins (coconut, raisins, peanuts) without missing a beat.
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies (Healthier Version)
Enjoy these delicious peanut butter cookies without feeling guilty, and these cookies are actually good for you.
Creamy Smooth Peanut Butter Cookies
Creamy peanut butter cookies with extra brown sugar for chewy centers and a thumbprint pressed into each top, optionally crowned with a peanut. Makes 5 dozen cookies.
Thai Cucumber Salad
A quick yet refreshing Thai cucumber salad accompanies well with most of your summer Barbecue dishes.
Sweet Justice Kung Pao Chicken
Traditional Chinese Recipe. You can cook this kung pao chicken in many ways, it depends on your own flavour, this sweet juistice should be loved by kids and women!
Chocolate Pieces Oatmeal Peanut Cookies
Chocolate, oatmeal, and peanut cookies with hand-cut chunks of sweet chocolate, chopped peanuts, and a quiet hit of almond extract. A chewy cookie with crunch and three flavor layers.
Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies
Peanut butter fudge cookies hack a boxed brownie mix into chewy, fudgy cookies studded with chocolate chips and pressed with chopped peanuts. Ready in 25 minutes with just 6 ingredients.
Kung Pao Chicken Stir-Fry
A quick, easy and delicious chicken-lettuce stir-fry is ideal for a busy week-night meal when served with rice.
4 Ingredient PB Cookies
Flourless peanut butter cookies made with just 4 ingredients: peanut butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. No flour, naturally gluten-free, and pressed with the classic crisscross fork marks. Soft centers, golden bottoms, done in about 20 minutes.
Chewy Double Peanut Butter Cookies
Soft, chewy double peanut butter cookies loaded with creamy peanut butter and topped with chopped peanuts. The chew comes from melted butter, corn syrup, and an extra egg yolk.
Pad Thai Pseudo
An easy homemade pad Thai that skips hard-to-find tamarind, leaning on fish sauce, vinegar, and paprika for that sweet-sour-salty tang. Chewy rice noodles tossed with tofu, shrimp, egg, bean sprouts, and crushed peanuts.
Chunky Peanut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chunky peanut chocolate chip cookies pack chunky peanut butter, salted peanuts, and semi-sweet chocolate chips into a buttery brown sugar dough. Crisp edges, chewy middles, and a salty-sweet finish in every bite.
Szechwan Curried Chicken
Seventh heaven of taste, aroma and sight. Thanks, I could try it.. thumb up!
Curried Spinach Salad
A fresh take on spinach salad. This sweet and savory salad is a wonderful alternative to the bacon and tomato variety.
Kung Pao Beef
Kung Pao beef: velveted flank steak stir-fried with roasted peanuts, fiery dried chilies, and crunchy water chestnuts in a savory-sweet Sichuan sauce. A bold, spicy take on takeout, ready in 40 minutes.
Delicious Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao chicken stir-fries marinated chicken with dried red chilies, bamboo shoots, and peanuts in a sweet, savory, slightly tangy sauce. Authentic Sichuan technique in 40 minutes.
