The forgotten food: Peanuts

[ToasterStrudel]

In the creation of all the new food items that we have, the simple peanut seems to have been mostly forgotten. Only used a single time as a simple garnish for a curry recipe. Times must change for the injustice of this common groundnut.

I suggest that we include a few new recipes as listed down below to help bring this grow-able crop into rotation of the kitchen.

 

- Boiled Peanuts

A staple from the south, as a good southern man myself this is one of the main and probably the only addition I am interested in. A suggested recipe would be peanuts, water, and salt. It could act similarly to the chip basket and produce trash shells when eaten.

 

- Baked Peanuts

Simple, just toss peanuts in an oven with some salt and boom, some peanuts. 

 

- Peanut Butter

An intermediary ingredient for a following recipe, simply microwave peanuts and maybe cooking oil to produce some peanut butter.

 

- PB&J (variety)

Mix together some Jelly from your choice of fruit, be it grapes, cherries, etc to make this staple of surviving as a child in the 90s

 

And many more, theres so many options for peanuts, and it is sad to see them not used.

[Carver]

Don't forget the most important of all.

[FreshRefreshments]

IMO, simply grinding up peanuts should make crunchy peanut butter, which can be ground again for smooth. I see no flaw here, as someone who ate PB+J probably every single day from 2004-2010.

[Gromnax]

Chocolate-coated peanuts should be a thing, too.