How To Roast Almonds

A Quick and Healthy Snack - How to Roast Almonds

Nut fans want to know – how to roast almonds. Almonds taste even better roasted than they do raw. Roasting brings out their sweetness that you can't always taste if you eat them unroasted. It's perfectly safe to roast almonds at home, as long as you keep the oven temperature at 350 degrees or less. If you use a higher temperature, it can damage the delicate fats of the nuts.

Some commercially packaged roasted almonds use a higher temperature in their processing, and thus the nuts lose their ability to fight off the production of free radicals. In fact, in nuts that are roasted commercially, often they actually contain free radicals, rather then the monounsaturated fats that help fight them off.

Check the temperature of your oven before you use this article on how to roast almonds. An inexpensive oven thermometer can allow you to make sure that your thermostat is accurate. Place your oven thermometer on the middle rack and preheat the oven for about fifteen minutes. Then compare the oven gauge temperature to that of your oven thermometer. They should be close in their readings. If it's a few degrees off, you can compensate for that by raising or lowering the button on the range top that sets the temperature.

Unsure of How to Roast Almonds? Here's a quick and easy way:

Things you will need:

One pound of raw almonds
Salt
Cookie sheet or shallow baking pan
Vegetable oil
Aluminum foil

Step One: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Cover your baking pan or cookie sheet with foil.

Step Two: Spread your raw almonds on the foil, in one layer. Coat the nuts with your vegetable oil, using a small brush, and then make sure they are still laying in a single layer. You may instead use a bit of soy sauce or Bragg's liquid to add more taste.

Step 3: Bake the nuts at 350 degrees for eight to ten minutes. Remove your cookie sheet from the oven, and pull the corners of your foil carefully into a pouch. Then place this pouch on a countertop. In this way, you will be preventing the nuts from being burned by your cookie sheet.

Step 4: Season or salt your almonds as you want them, and allow them to cool for about ten minutes. Store them in a porcelain or glass crock to keep them fresh.

I hope this article has been beneficial in teaching you how to roast almonds. This is a very healthy nut, and as long as you don't roast them at too high a temperature, they will retain most of their nutritive value after you roast them. They are an easy nut to snack on, and roasted almonds are even tastier than raw nuts.