Spicy Cashews

Name: Spicy Cashews
Yield: Serves 8 as a pre-supper snack
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 1 level tsp ground allspice; ½ tbsp sunflower or groundnut oil; 1 tsp chilli flakes; ½ tsp cinnamon; 1–2 tsp. sea salt; 150 g (5½ oz) unsalted cashews; ½ tsp pepper; ½ red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped (optional); juice of ½ lime

Preparation info

Serves
8
as a pre-supper snack

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

As a boy I’d climb the cashew trees in my grandfather’s garden and eat the fruit. He thought it was the birds until one day he caught me. I fell out of the tree straight into his arms for a big telling-off.

Ingredients

½ tbsp sunflower or groundnut oil
1 level tsp ground allspice
½

Americas
Snack
Supper
Dessert
Spicy
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Mix the oil with the spices and toss the cashews around in the spicy oil. Put all of this into a dry frying pan (use a spatula to get every drop of seasoning out into the pan). Cook over a medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 3 minutes, then stir them continuously for another 3 minutes so that they don’t catch and burn on the bottom of the pan.
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