Peanuts

These crunchy recipes include kung pao turkey drumsticks and no-bake chocolate-peanut butter cookies.

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Fried Peanuts with Asian Flavors

To make these addictive peanuts extra-tangy, Chris Yeo soaks them in lime juice before frying them and tossing them with tart shredded lime leaves. He served them at the Atlanta party because Georgia is the peanut capital of the country.

Tasty Snack Recipes

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Maple-Glazed Peanuts & Bacon

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"Because everything's better with bacon," reads the menu description for these addictive nuts. The sweet and salty snack has become so popular that the restaurant now sells it online in packs of three 8-ounce mason jars (theredheadnyc.com).

Tasty Snack Recipes

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Red Curry Peanut Noodles

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Whole-wheat spaghetti is one of Melissa Rubel Jacobson's favorite pastas because it is a good source of fiber and has an appealing chewiness. Here, she updates sesame noodles, a Chinese take-out classic, by giving the peanut sauce a hit of fiery red curry paste.

Pasta Recipes

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Peanut-Butter-and-Jelly Cups

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Use a fairly bitter dark chocolate to balance out the sweet, creamy peanut butter ganache filling and the tangy raspberry jam.

Peanut Butter Recipes

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Best-Ever Nut Brittle

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Tina Ujlaki adapted this crunchy, buttery, slightly salty brittle from a recipe by pastry chef Karen DeMasco. When her children were younger, Tina would make it as a holiday gift for their teachers. As she recalls, "Come November, I'd start getting these looks from teachers who were hoping for the brittle but too shy to ask me about it."

Dessert Recipes

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Kung Pao Turkey Drumsticks

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Turkey legs have become a staple of music festivals. These have a sticky ginger glaze, which helps a crunchy peanut-scallion mix stick.

Ultimate Thanksgiving Recipes

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Garlic Peanut Sauce

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Unlike most versions of this Asian condiment, which taste like overly sweet peanut butter, Chris Yeo's is spicy, nutty and just slightly fruity thanks to the coconut milk and tamarind he stirs in. The peanut sauce is terrific with the shrimp satay but just as good with almost any grilled or roasted meat or poultry.

Fast and Easy International Recipes

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Thai-Style Duck-and-Green-Papaya Salad

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This main-course salad is tossed with a tomato-peanut dressing.

Thai Recipes

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Tequila-Spiked Caramel Corn

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More suited to a cocktail party than a baseball game, this riff on Cracker Jack by Atlanta pastry chef Taria Camerino is sweetened with agave nectar and spiked with tequila. Slow-baking turns the popcorn-nut mix fabulously crunchy.

Tasty Snack Recipes

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No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Fredrika Stjärne

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Grace Parisi's crumbly, ultra-peanutty cookies require only four ingredients: puffed-corn cereal, peanut butter cups, peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles. The powdery texture of the ground cereal prevents the cookies from feeling sticky.

Cookie Recipes

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Lao Mixed Salad with Peanuts and Fried Shallots

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A specialty of Luang Prabang, chef Sebastien Rubis's refreshing salad is made with an array of delicious ingredients—greens, shallot, hard-cooked egg, salted peanuts, tomatoes and cucumber.

Fast Asian Recipes

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Tiki Snack Mix

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This irresistible mix of soy-and-honey-glazed peanuts, bacon and chewy glazed pineapple is the perfect complement to tiki cocktails, combining Polynesian-inspired flavors in every bite.

Tiki Cocktail Party Recipes

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Vietnamese Coffee Sundaes with Crushed Peanut Brittle

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The Vietnamese love drinking superstrong iced coffee combined with copious amounts of sweetened condensed milk. Joanne Chang created this simple ice cream sundae as a way to enjoy the same flavors. Shards of peanut brittle made with a generous pinch of cinnamon add great flavor and crunch.

Coffee Recipes

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Shrimp and Jicama Rolls with Chili-Peanut Sauce

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At school in Vietnam, Charles Phan and his classmates would buy these chewy rice-paper rolls, filled with crunchy jicama and sweet shrimp, from enterprising street vendors who set up their stalls in the playground at dismissal time. Phan loves the neatness of including the sauce in the roll rather than serving it alongside, but he often makes extra for those who insist on dipping.

Shrimp Recipes

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Linguine with Snow Peas, Cucumber, and Peanut Sauce

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Pairing Suggestion: Choose a simple Kabinett Riesling from the Rheinhessen. These Rieslings' piquant juxtaposition of fruity acids and balancing sweetness is the perfect foil for the salty and spicy flavors of Asian cuisine.

Pasta Recipes

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Chinese Chicken Salad

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Joanne Chang prepares this salad when she's craving Chinese food but wants something light and easy. She sometimes makes it even crunchier by adding napa cabbage, cucumbers and carrots.

Delicious Chicken Salads

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Mom's Nutty Granola

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This granola recipe from Jessamyn Waldman's mother is more nutty than sweet. Says Waldman, "I love it because I'm not a sweet breakfast person myself."

Healthy Breakfasts

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Tiki Snack Mix

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This irresistible mix of soy-and-honey-glazed peanuts, bacon and chewy glazed pineapple is the perfect complement to tiki cocktails, combining Polynesian-inspired flavors in every bite.

Tiki Cocktail Party Recipes

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Silky Chocolate Mousse with Peanut Butter Crunch

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Any chocolate and peanut butter lover will adore this elegant dessert from pastry chef Rachel Lansang-Hidalgo of Manhattan's Aureole. Lansang-Hidalgo tops a rich milk-chocolate mousse with a roasted-peanut cream and addictively crunchy cornflakes mixed with peanut butter, milk chocolate and peanuts.

Pudding Recipes

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Fried Peanuts with Asian Flavors

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Maple-Glazed Peanuts & Bacon

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Red Curry Peanut Noodles

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Peanut-Butter-and-Jelly Cups

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Best-Ever Nut Brittle

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Kung Pao Turkey Drumsticks

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Garlic Peanut Sauce

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Thai-Style Duck-and-Green-Papaya Salad

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Tequila-Spiked Caramel Corn

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No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

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Lao Mixed Salad with Peanuts and Fried Shallots

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Tiki Snack Mix

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Vietnamese Coffee Sundaes with Crushed Peanut Brittle

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Shrimp and Jicama Rolls with Chili-Peanut Sauce

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Linguine with Snow Peas, Cucumber, and Peanut Sauce

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Chinese Chicken Salad

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Mom's Nutty Granola

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Tiki Snack Mix

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Silky Chocolate Mousse with Peanut Butter Crunch

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