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Ceylon Spiced Nut Mix

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Cashew, peanut and chickpea tossed hot with chilli, curry leaf and a little sugar.

  • Three textures rather than one nut
  • Curry leaves fried brittle and left in
  • A thin sugar glaze that holds the chilli on
  • Sri Lankan cashews, which are large and buttery
  • The bowl that appears whenever anybody opens a bottle
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Size: 150g

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Description

Sri Lankan cashews, peanuts and fried chickpeas tossed while still hot with chilli, curry leaves, salt and a small amount of sugar, so the coating turns glossy and sticks. This is the bowl that appears with drinks at every Sri Lankan gathering.

Devilled cashews are the famous version, and the mixed bowl is what actually gets put out. Cashew alone is expensive, so the peanuts and fried chickpeas stretch it and add two more textures at the same time.

The technique is in the timing. The nuts come out of the pan hot, the seasoning goes on immediately, and the small amount of sugar melts and sets into a thin glaze that holds the chilli and the curry leaves on.

Curry leaves are fried until they go brittle and are left in. Anybody picking them out has not tried one.

How to Use

  • Put a bowl out with drinks
  • Crush over a devilled dish for extra crunch
  • Take a bag to somebody's house instead of wine
  • Eat with a cold beer and regret the quantity

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Hot chilli, curry leaves and a small amount of sugar tossed through while the nuts are still hot from the pan, so the sugar melts into a thin glaze. Devilled in Sri Lanka means this treatment, and it gets applied to chicken, fish and cuttlefish as well.

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