Mapleallspicebeernuts Recipes

MAPLE-ALLSPICE BEER NUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Place peanuts into a large bowl.
• Pour maple syrup and allspice into a small saucepan and place over medium-high heat.
• Bring to a simmer and turn off heat and let cool slightly.
• Pour warm maple syrup mixture over peanuts in the bowl and stir with a wooden spoon to coat peanuts thoroughly.
• With a slotted spoon scoop peanuts from bowl and place into sieve and partially drain over the bowl while transferring peanuts onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
• Repeat process until the baking sheet is full of nuts.
• Place any extra nuts on a second baking sheet.
• Place baking sheet (s) in the oven and roast for 25-30 minutes or until mixture has darkened in colour.
• Be careful to watch that the nuts don't burn- the maple syrup will caramelize and burn easily, so it must be checked frequently.
• Pull the nuts from the oven and transfer onto a single layer of parchment on a counter and let cool.
• With a metal spatula, loosen the nuts from the paper and store in a fun bowl for eating right way or in an airtight container if making in advance.

MAPLE ROAST VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Place all the ingredients in a bowl and toss to coat the vegetables (at this point you can place the vegetables in a large zipper bag and refrigerate overnight).
• Pour the vegetables on to a foil lined sheet tray and roast for 50 minutes, stirring halfway through, or until tender and golden.
• Serve.

MAPLE PICKLED BEETS AND ONIONS

Steps:

• Sterilize jars and lids
• Cook onions in a large pot of boiling water until almost tender, about 5 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to a bowl, reserving cooking water. When cool enough to handle, trim root ends from onions, keeping onions intact, then slip off skins. Halve onions lengthwise.
• Add beets to water in pot and boil until almost tender, about 25 minutes. Drain and, when cool enough to handle, slip off stems and skins. Halve beets lengthwise (quarter if large).
• Bring vinegar, syrup, water, salt, star anise, and ginger to a boil in a 3-quart saucepan, then simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes.
• Drain jars upside down on a clean kitchen towel 1 minute, then invert. Fill jars with beets and onions. Remove star anise and ginger slices from pickling liquid and tuck 1 of each into side of each jar. Fill jars with pickling liquid, leaving 1/4 inch of space at top, then run a thin knife between vegetables and jar to eliminate air bubbles.
• Seal, process, and store filled jars, boiling beets and onions in jars 20 minutes.
• Let beets and onions stand in jars at least 1 week for flavors to develop.