Stovetop Candied Pecans Amongst Maple Syrup

Learn how to build addicting candied pecans on the stovetop inwards as petty as 10 minutes. This quick & slow recipe uses elementary pantry ingredients similar maple syrup, granulated sweetener, warm spices, butter, in addition to vanilla extract thence you lot tin laid a batch last-minute for salads, desserts, snacks, or homemade gifts. That is if you lot don't swallow them all yourself... (gluten-free, grain-free & vegetarian)

FACT: 1 of the best smells inwards the entire earth is candied nuts. The trifecta of vanilla, cinnamon & saccharide is the prototype of warm & cozy scents. It has a agency of melting away stress in addition to brightening your mood all at once.

Back inwards my UMKC days, I used to vesture a perfume called Pink Sugar. It smelled exactly similar the candied almonds sold at my local mall. Whenever I came into operate wearing it (I served at a bar & grill), several co-workers in addition to customers would approach me to teach a bigger whiff, enquire me what I was wearing, in addition to tell me I smelled similar the almonds at Oak Park Mall (essentially a sweetish vanilla).

I constitute this amusing, but speedily realized the practise goodness of wearing the perfume: it relaxed the folks who smelled it in addition to typically pose a smiling on their face. That's a recipe for a skilful operate environment, right?

These days I avoid artificial fragrance in addition to instead usage relaxation.

However, if you lot don't have got essential oils on hand, the side past times side best matter is to whip out your vanilla extract in addition to build or thence candied nuts! That in addition to homemade banana bread. Mmmm.

Why Make Candied Nuts On The Stove Instead of In The Oven? And Why Use Butter Instead of Egg Whites?

It's super slow to build homemade candied nuts on the stove. But as slow to bake them inwards the oven. So, why select 1 cooking method or ingredient over the other? Let's explore the differences.

• Cook Time: The stovetop is faster, doesn't have got upward valuable oven infinite (important during holidays), in addition to keeps the theatre cool (good inwards the summertime months). The oven method is skilful for when you lot have got extra fourth dimension or desire to warm upward the house. 
• Recipe Ingredients: Many oven recipes telephone recollect for egg whites piece the stovetop recipes telephone recollect for butter (there are exceptions, of course). If you're avoiding 1 of those ingredients, that volition impact which recipe and/or technique you lot try. Those ingredients also behavior upon the in conclusion texture of the candied nuts (see bullet below).
• Texture: Candied nuts made on the stove alongside a fatty similar butter have got an exterior coating that is glossy in addition to slightly mucilaginous similar caramel. Because of the caramel-like coating, these have got a shorter shelf life (the nut itself stays skilful for several weeks but the exterior volition start to crystallize afterwards 4-5 days). Conversely, recipes alongside egg whites in addition to no fatty create candied nuts alongside a crunchy coating. These have got a longer shelf life because the coating stays crunchy (they ever teach eaten inside 1-2 weeks thence I'm non sure how long they travel along their crunch). 

Can I Get a Crunchy Coating Using Butter? 

It's possible to teach a crunchy coating using the stovetop/butter recipe BUT it requires evaporating all the H2O inwards the mixture (yes at that spot is H2O inwards butter) in addition to bringing the mixture upward to a high plenty temperature (most probable the soft cleft phase on a candy thermometer - I don't know the exact temp for sure because I didn't usage one).

However, I've exclusively achieved this once (see the salad pic below for illustration). It was inwards Breckenridge, Colorado on a gas stove. So I was inwards a rattling dry, high height climate using a stove that heated well. When I tried the recipe in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than (many times over) at normal height inwards Kansas City (on an electrical stove) in addition to at abode inwards Texas (on a drinking glass stove) the candied nuts ever came out glossy & caramel-like, non crunchy.

It may live possible to harden the caramel-like coating past times popping the nuts into a 300-350 bird oven for a few minutes, but I haven't tried that yet. I'll update the postal service in 1 lawsuit I teach a lead a chance to practise this (and to essay it alongside paleo/dairy-free ingredients similar ghee or kokosnoot oil).

In the meantime, I advise you lot essay my recipe as written in addition to relish the glossy, buttery, slightly stickier exterior. Both versions sense of savour as good!

Why Use Maple Syrup & Coconut Sugar For Candied Pecans?

Maple syrup is my absolute favorite sweetener, followed past times raw love in addition to kokosnoot sugar. I have got every chance to usage those 3 over other sugars. I genuinely used to abhor kokosnoot saccharide until I tried this brand. Now I similar it. Go figure!

I decided to usage one-half real maple syrup in addition to one-half kokosnoot saccharide thence I could teach the deep molasses flavor from both sweeteners while also cutting downwards the amount of syrup used since it's to a greater extent than expensive. Coconut saccharide is also lower on the glycemic scale (it has four grams of saccharide per teaspoon versus 4.5 inwards maple syrup in addition to chocolate-brown sugar) thence cutting it alongside maple syrup ensured it had plenty sweetness. I mean, this is candied nuts afterwards all!

If you lot don't have got whatsoever maple syrup and/or kokosnoot saccharide on manus you lot tin surely substitute other granular sweeteners similar maple sugar, sucanat, turbinado, chocolate-brown saccharide or cane sugar. However, travel along inwards hear that wet levels behavior upon candy making thence when you lot switch upward ingredients, it may impact the in conclusion texture or ready time.

EXTRA COATING (OPTIONAL): And if you lot honor that the candied pecans aren't sweetness plenty for your taste, I've provided an selection for tossing them inwards to a greater extent than granulated sweetener + cinnamon. You tin practise this forthwith (straight out of the hot skillet) OR await a chip for the coating to solidify on the baking sheet.

Tossing them forthwith creates a rougher, craggier coating in addition to waiting until the maple coating is cool root creates a uniform saccharide coating. See my pic below for a visual example.

Important Tips For Making Candied Pecans (Please Read)

I'm going to assume you're a skimmer similar nearly folks today. You mightiness fifty-fifty skip correct to the recipe, speed read it for the full general ideas, in addition to thence sweat to teach inwards alongside exclusively a glance or ii at the ingredients. I'm guilty of this!

Making candied nuts is fast & slow BUT if you're distracted or switch upward the incorrect thing, it tin speedily ruin the nuts. We don't desire this! Pecans aren't cheap. So, if you lot read anything inwards this post, allow it live these tips:

1. Get All Your Ingredients Ready Before Starting

This is non a recipe where you lot tin add together 1 ingredient at a fourth dimension to the skillet alongside pauses to rummage for containers inwards your pantry. The saccharide coating comes together inwards minutes, thence you lot demand to mensurate out all your ingredients root in addition to travel along them side past times side to you lot at the stove thence at that spot are no mistakes or distractions.

2. Don't Walk Away From The Stove

Once you lot pour all the ingredients (nuts, spices, sugars) into the skillet, do non walk away. Everything comes together inwards exclusively 5-7 minutes. If you lot essay to multi-task, you lot peril burning the nuts/sugars or having the butter & sugars split upward or other weirdness.

3. Don't Increase The Heat

You mightiness live tempted to plow the oestrus upward to medium-high or high to speed upward the process. DO NOT practise this. You peril burning the sugars and/or nuts. Medium is as high as you lot should go, fifty-fifty if your skillet/stove takes a few extra minutes to destination the process!

4. Immediately Soak Your Skillet, Utensils, Bowls etc. In Warm Water

Just similar alongside homemade toffee, the butter-sugar-spice coating speedily solidifies as it cools, thence it's of import to forthwith launder or soak anything that the cooked sugars touched. Skillet, bowls, measurement cups, utensils etc. Do this correct afterwards you lot spread the nuts out to cool in addition to you lot volition give thank you lot me! The exception, of course, is a cast-iron skillet. Don't ever soak that inwards water. Instead, build clean it piece it's silent warm, dry out thoroughly, in addition to laid aside.

Can These Candied Pecans Be Made Ahead of Time For Homemade Food Gifts?

In price of shelf life, yes. BUT this item recipe creates a glossy, slightly sticky, caramel-like coating. I've constitute that past times 24-hour interval 4-5 the coating starts to crystallize. It silent tastes delicious in addition to volition in conclusion a few weeks, but the texture is dissimilar (and non as skilful inwards my opinion).

So, if you lot desire to maintain the smooth, glossy, caramelly texture AND give this as a homemade nutrient gift, I recommend making it the 24-hour interval of or the 24-hour interval before you lot excogitation on gifting the food.

If you lot demand to build your nutrient gifts agency ahead of fourth dimension (like say 7-10 days), candied nuts cooked inwards the oven alongside egg whites instead of butter is a improve option. This creates a consistently crunchy coating that volition concur it's texture.

Or, you lot tin build a savory nut recipe instead similar my Rosemary Spiced Nuts.

Ideas For Using These Stovetop Candied Pecans In Recipes

• garnish for leafy salads (see pic below - recipe coming soon)
• mixed into overnight steel cutting oats or stovetop oatmeal
• homemade granola (chop into chunks & toss inwards at the end)
• topping for cheesecake, custard pies, or leftover pumpkin pie milkshakes (<--- thence much yes)
• as the sweetness chemical factor on a Charcuterie board or appetizer table
• chopped in addition to mixed into homemade cookies (or pressed on top nigh the end)
• homemade muffins (like a copycat of the Starbucks maple pecan muffin)
• homemade banana bread (chopped into smaller pieces & mixed inwards or placed on top)
• sprinkled on top of creamy pan-fried peaches for a heavenly dessert

Tools For Making Stovetop Candied Pecans

Using the correct tools makes cooking & clean-up easier. Use what you lot have, but if you lot can, seek these out to build the procedure smoother:

• non-stick skillet (like a ceramic coated pan OR well-seasoned cast-iron skillet)
• rubber or silicone spatula (so you lot don't scratch the non-stick surface if using something also cast-iron)
• parchment paper or foil (so the nuts are slow to take from baking sail when cool)
• large rimmed baking sail or cookie sail (for spreading out the nuts inwards a unmarried layer to cool)
• 2 medium bowls (for measurement out nuts & spices thence you're ready to go)
• measuring cups & spoons (I similar my magnetic stainless steel sets thence they stick together) 

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Yield: 2 cupsAuthor: Elaina Newton -

Stovetop Candied Pecans alongside Maple Syrup

prep time: 3 minscook time: seven minstotal time: 10 mins

Learn how to build addicting candied pecans on the stovetop inwards as petty as 10 minutes. This quick & slow recipe uses elementary pantry ingredients similar maple syrup, granulated sweetener, warm spices, butter, in addition to vanilla extract thence you lot tin laid a batch last-minute for salads, desserts, snacks, or homemade gifts. That is if you lot don't swallow them all yourself... (gluten-free, grain-free & vegetarian)

ingredients:

• 2 cups of raw pecan halves
• 1/4 loving cup of existent maple syrup (like THIS - NOT maple flavored syrup)
• 1/4 loving cup of kokosnoot saccharide (I similar the sense of savour of this build the best)
• 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter
• 1/2 teaspoon of ocean tabular array salt (omit if using salted butter)
• 2 teaspoons of Ceylon cinnamon pulverisation a.k.a. "true cinnamon" (THIS is my favorite)
• 1/4 teaspoon of solid soil nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract or homemade vanilla extract

instructions:

1. Combine all ingredients except for the butter inwards a medium bowl in addition to identify it side past times side to the stove. Line a large baking sail alongside parchment newspaper in addition to laid aside.
2.  Melt the butter inwards a non-stick skillet laid to medium oestrus (should have got 1-2 minutes). Dump the contents of the bowl into the skillet in addition to stir everything good (scrape out whatsoever excess spices or syrup alongside your spatula thence it all goes in). 
3. Cook for 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly alongside a spatula (don't walk away from the stove). You desire the kokosnoot saccharide to dissolve inwards the maple syrup & butter (this happens quickly) in addition to the sugar/butter/spice mixture to trim down & thicken thence it's coating the pecans (not the bottom of the pan).  
4. When all (or most) of the saccharide mixture has reduced thence it's clinging to the pecans (use your olfactory organ as a guide to build sure it's non burning), take from the oestrus in addition to forthwith pour the nuts onto the parchment lined sheet. Quickly spread the nuts inwards 1 fifty-fifty layer in addition to split upward them thence they don't stick together. 
5. Let the pecans cool completely (they volition describe of piece of job solid upward quickly) in addition to thence shop inwards an airtight container on the counter.  Consume inside 3-4 days for the best sense of savour & texture; however, if crystallization doesn't bother you lot they'll in conclusion upward to ii weeks. 

NOTES:

If you lot prefer a sweeter candied nut or desire to encompass upward the slightly mucilaginous caramel-like coating, you lot tin toss the cooked pecans inwards an additional 1/4 loving cup of kokosnoot saccharide (maple saccharide would live a skilful substitute) + 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon powder. Either dump the nuts directly from the skillet into a bowl alongside the extra saccharide (these build the outsides craggy) OR await until they're cool in addition to toss them in addition to thence (the outsides volition have got an fifty-fifty layer of sugar). See the pic inwards a higher identify inwards the weblog postal service for visual reference.

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