25 Days of Nourishing Traditions: Crispy Walnuts

Just like with grains, nuts naturally contain enzyme inhibitors that make them difficult to digest and harmful to your body if improperly prepared. Thankfully, when you make them right, nuts are very nutritious and don’t have those problems! That’s yet another great thing you’ll learn in Nourishing Traditions — how to prepare nuts. This recipe shows exactly how to make delicious, crispy walnuts packed with all their good nutrients, and none of the icky stuff.

Crispy Walnuts is a variation of Crispy Pecans, found on page 513 of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon.

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Ingredients

• 4 cups raw walnut halves
• 2 teaspoons sea salt
• filtered water

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Instructions

Find a large enough container for the amount of nuts you want to soak (I did 2 cups here), but not one that you’ll otherwise need for the next 7 plus hours! A glass mixing bowl works. Mix in your nuts with sea salt and cover with filtered water.

Let soak (preferably in a warm place) for at least 7 hours, but overnight is better. Now, drain them out and get ready to spread them over a baking pan or cookie sheet.

Dry the nuts in a warm oven heated to no more than 150 degrees for 12-24 hours. You could also use a dehydrator. Turn the nuts occasionally, until they’re all the way dry and crisp.

Store walnuts in an airtight container in the refrigerator. I like to use glass jars!

How’d it go?

How we liked it

These are tasty little snacks all on their own! But there are lots of great snack recipes in NT that call for nuts, so I’m going to save most of these for trying out one of them. It’s gonna be good!

Have you learned to make crispy nuts yet? Which ones are your favorite?

Be sure to check out the other installments of 25 Days of Nourishing Traditions:

• Onion-Cranberry Compote
• Sweet Potato Puree
• Ginger Carrots
• Stuffed Peppers
• Turkey Stock
• Coconut Turkey Soup
• Carrots Vichy
• Breaded Whitefish
• Moussaka Eggplant Casserole
• Breaded Chicken Breasts
• Baked Custard
• Basic Dressing