Poppy seeds are tiny blue-grey oily seeds. They are about 1 mm across at most.
Poppy seeds can be added to almost any bread recipe by sprinkling or rolling the dough in the seeds before baking it, much as one might do for sesame seeds. Poppy seeds are especially popular on bagels.
Warning
Eating poppy seeds can cause […]
Sesame seeds are small oily seeds, off-white or black colored, and a few mm across at most. They are a common food allergen. They taste vaguely like peanuts and cashews.
Sesame seeds can be added to salads for an extra ‘nutty’ texture. Sesame seeds are commonly sprinkled over rice in Japanese cooking. Sesame seeds can be […]
Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pine trees. Commercially, most pine nuts are harvested from the Korean Pine; other important species include the Stone Pine in the Mediterranean area, the Colorado Pinyon and the Single-leaf Pinyon in southwestern North America. Several other species are of lesser importance. They are high in protein, and are […]
All parts of coconut plant are useful and the trees have a comparatively high yield (up to 75 “nuts” per year) it therefore has significant economic value. Indeed in Sanskrit the name for the coconut palm is kalpa vriksha, which translates as “the tree which provides all the necessities of life”. Uses of the various […]
Cashew is the seed of the cashew tree, Anacardium occidentale. It is used in Asian cuisine, snacks, and desserts. (The tree also produces an “apple”, which is edible as well.)
The almond comes from the pit of a stone fruit related to the plum, cherry, peach, apricot, and nectarine. Bitter almonds, and the seeds of the related fruits, contain high levels of the poison cyanide. Normal almonds are safe to eat.
To remove the brown peels, blanch the almonds (briefly plunge them into boiling water) and […]
There are several kinds of walnut, the Persian walnut (by far the most common), the Black walnut (more flavorful and expensive), the Butternut, the Japanese walnut and others. Walnuts are very similar to pecans.
Walnuts go well with chocolate, making an excellent ice cream topping.
Recipes featuring walnuts include
Snezhanka
Madeira Honey Cake
Butter tart
Pesto (as a pine nut replacement)
Brownies
Saucepan […]
Nuts in cuisine are a much less restrictive category than nuts in botany, the term being applied to many seeds that are not true nuts in the botanical sense. Any large, oily kernel found within a shell and used in food may be regarded as a nut. Because nuts generally have a high oil content, […]