Boiled Green Peanuts!

[Stimw]

Time for boiled green peanuts again.
I put in a row of peanuts and it's time to dig them.
I always make them in a pressure cooker and it only takes 30 minutes.
The trick is after 30 minutes perking take them off the heat and let cool in the water.
If you don't let cool in the water they will be cooked but dry and the salt won't have soaked in.
I have also frozen them successfully! Thaw in fridge and they are almost as good as fresh.

 

[Bird]

I'm probably the least finicky eater you'll ever find. Not much that I don't like. And I've been a peanut addict since my teen years; eat peanuts nearly every day. But I bought a can of boiled peanuts at the Walmart grocery store, tried one taste and threw the whole can in the garbage. I think I might starve before I could eat boiled peanuts; never thought peanuts could be ruined until I tried boiled ones. but obviously, some people actually like them.

 

[txdon]

The first time I heard of boiled green peanuts was when my dad had an Indian co-worker come out to his peanut farm and pulled some peanuts to boil. I still prefer the roasted peanuts and remember getting a warm handful from he top of my grandmas WBS eating them on a cold December day.

Thanks for the pressure cooker tips. Another use for the Instant Pot.

All of the peanut patches in this part of Texas have been turned into hay fields. I like you did raise a batch in the garden.

 

[mddorange]

Time for boiled green peanuts again.
I put in a row of peanuts and it's time to dig them.
I always make them in a pressure cooker and it only takes 30 minutes.
The trick is after 30 minutes perking take them off the heat and let cool in the water.
If you don't let cool in the water they will be cooked but dry and the salt won't have soaked in.
I have also frozen them successfully! Thaw in fridge and they are almost as good as fresh.

I still remember the time when I was 12 and my dad allowed me to plant one complete row of peanuts. I couldn't imagine the number of peanuts we got per hill. We ate them every way possible. We had so many peanuts that we were giving them away. :licking:

 

[phiferpharm]

We are fortunate to live near Waldon Farms and can buy the Jumbo peanuts by the 1/4 Bushel for $10. My wife does a super job of getting them done to a nice slightly al-dente level with just the right amount of salt. She always does as the OP says and lets them sit in the water for awhile. Actually, she lets them sit in salted water for awhile before she cooks them also.

My kids and grand-kids can mow them down big time. A real favorite for young and old....

 

[Gary Fowler]

I always loved boiled peanuts. While working in Venezuela in 1982-84, I found a good substitute. They have a fruit that looks similar to breadfruit but with little spines on it that produces nuts inside called Castana nuts, not to be confused with chestnuts. They taste amazingly like boiled peanuts when cooked in salt water (at least to me they do). The seeds are shaped similar to a Brazil nut but the shell is not as thick or tough.
It is hard to find green peanuts to boil, most places here package them up for roasting which is a shame.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I tasted them once when we went to Myrtle beach. We stopped at a gas station/quick shop and they gave me a sample. Once was enough; I'll take mine roasted and salted. Spent my money instead on shrimp and oysters, which in a fresh condition are hard to come by in Central Oklahoma.

 

[M5farms]

your not supposed to buy Boiled peanuts in a can or from a gas station. everyone around here knows you either boil them yourself or you find a fruitstand or a peanut stand where the sign is painted with a spray paint.

We have such place around here and its a 15 mile out of the way trip but well worth it.

I will probably pull some up this weekend and boil them. The little ones are a lot of work but the best flavor by far.

 

[jaxs]

We grew peanuts in N.Tx and the only way locals ate them was "parched". Every so often "furners"would tell us what we were missing and boil some for us. Never liked them boiled regardless of recipe. On the other hand,we ate purple hull peas whereas they fed them to cattle.

 

[Wakey]

I like them spicy with sliced carrots and Jalapeños in the mix. Don't know if anyone has tried this but they go good with beer :laughing:

:drink:

 

[Paddy]

I find boiled peanuts a special treat. Spent a short time living in SC 35 years ago. First time I thought what a way to ruin a good peanut. But my sister made some and were served ice cold with the perfect amount of salt, hooked ever since. I have bought green peanuts at the grocery store in SC and brought them back home to boil. Makes my mouth water!

 

[jaxs]

I like them spicy with sliced carrots and Jalapeños in the mix. Don't know if anyone has tried this but they go good with beer :laughing:

:drink:

Why YES! Even those weiners and boiled eggs in a gallon of vinegar sitting on the bar go good with beer. Come to think of it,what doesn't go good with beer?

 

[txdon]

Why YES! Even those weiners and boiled eggs in a gallon of vinegar sitting on the bar go good with beer. Come to think of it,what doesn't go good with beer?

Steamed broccoli.

 

[Wakey]

Steamed broccoli.

Put toasted sesame oil and salt on that.

 

[UpstateSC_Papi]

your not supposed to buy Boiled peanuts in a can or from a gas station. everyone around here knows you either boil them yourself or you find a fruitstand or a peanut stand where the sign is painted with a spray paint.

So true, so true!! :licking:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We grew peanuts in N.Tx and the only way locals ate them was "parched". Every so often "furners"would tell us what we were missing and boil some for us. Never liked them boiled regardless of recipe. On the other hand,we ate purple hull peas whereas they fed them to cattle.

OMG! My wife is from Gilmer; we raise some "East Texas Purple Hull Peas" every year, when we can keep the deer off them. They go great with some world famous Pittsburg Hot Links...I'm about out of those; will pick up a case next month when we go to the family reunion in Little Mound.

 

[phiferpharm]

Steamed broccoli.

That's about the only way some folks can stomach Broccoli...:drink:

 

[clemsonfor]

your not supposed to buy Boiled peanuts in a can or from a gas station. everyone around here knows you either boil them yourself or you find a fruitstand or a peanut stand where the sign is painted with a spray paint.

We have such place around here and its a 15 mile out of the way trip but well worth it.

I will probably pull some up this weekend and boil them. The little ones are a lot of work but the best flavor by far.

Yep this!! you need to get the old guy or who ever that's there all the time that's the real p nut folks. We have a girl and her husband in town that make them that we buy them from. Sometimes you can get them good in a cooler section and boutique grocery stores that are good. Can ones not as good, salt is not good in them and there often crisp and not the best peanuts. Gas station sometimes they sit there all week.

Boiled P nuts must be a deep south thing? and apparently didn't make it to Texas where Bird is from?

 

[Bird]

Boiled P nuts must be a deep south thing? and apparently didn't make it to Texas where Bird is from?

I think Walmart (not sure about other grocery stores) just started stocking them in the last few years. And of course I have no idea how much they sell.

 

[Gary Fowler]

The Peanut Patch canned boiled peanuts are somewhat palatable but nothing compared to pulling them off the green vine and boiling them in salted water. We would boil up a big batch when the peanuts came in and put some up in the freezer. They keep well that way for several months.