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Roasted peanut is a popular South Indian beach side snack. Traditionally peanut roast is made in iron kadai by heating sand. I wanted to try peanut roast but I have no sand at home to try it. So I decided to make peanut roast in my air fryer. And it was a huge success, my kitchen smelled with the nicely roasted peanuts.

How to make raw peanut roast in air fryer

Here I’m explaining the ingredients and method of making easy papaya banana smoothie.

Prepare time: 5 min
Cook: 10 min
Ready in: 15 min
Cuisine: Snacks
Serves: 2

Ingredients

  1. Raw peanut – 1 cup
  2. Salt – 1/8 teaspoon or to taste

Method

  1.  Wash and strain raw peanuts.
  2. Add salt to the wet peanuts and combine well.
  3. Evenly spread the salted peanut in the air fryer basket.
  4. Air fry for 10 minutes in 180 degree celsius.
  5. Peanut roast is ready, but it will be chewy.
  6. Keep the peanuts in open air till it cools down to room temperature.
  7. It will become firm and crispy in room tempearature.
  8. Store it in an air tight container and use.

Pro tips & tricks by Anishya

  1.  Wetting peanuts will help to coat salt evenly on peanuts.
  2. Also wetting helps to cook the peanuts evenly.

Variations you can try

  1. You can add some chili powder with salt for a spicy peanut roast.

Best serving combos suggested by Anishya

  1. Tea or coffee
  2. Salads

 

Masala Kappalandi | Masala Kadala | Peanut Fritters Recipe is a popular South Indian snack in which peanuts are batter
fried with gram flour/ basen. Kappalandi/ Nila Kadala is the Malayalam word for Peanut.

Masala Kappalandi | Masala Kadala | Peanut Fritters Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 1. Peanut - 1 Cup - Dry roasted
  • 2. Besan/ Gram flour - 1/2 Cup (Kadala mavu)
  • 3. Rice flour - 1 Tablespoon (Aripodi)
  • 4. Red chilly powder - 2 Teaspoon
  • 5. Turmeric powder - 1/4 Teaspoon
  • 6. Fennel powder - 1/2 Teaspoon (Perumjeerakam)
  • 7. Asafoetida powder - 1/4 Teaspoon (Kayapodi)
  • 8. Garlic - 5 Cloves - Crushed with peel
  • 9. Curry leaves - 2 Stems
  • 10. Salt - As required
  • 11. Water - 1/2 Cup/ As required
  • 12. Oil - For deep frying

Instructions

  1. Mix ingredients 2 – 11 and make a loose batter.
  2. Add peanuts in the batter and mix well.
  3. Heat oil in a wide pan and make it to low – medium flame.
  4. When oil is very hot, add batter coated peanuts. Do not allow peanuts to stick together so spread peanuts with a ladle.
  5. Deep fry peanuts till brown and crispy.
  6. Allow the masala peanuts to cool down and store in a dry tight lid container.

Notes

- Red food color can be added to get a bright colored Masala Kappalandi/ Kadala. - Separate each batter coated peanuts with hands before putting into hot oil to avoid the lumps of Masala Kadala. Also spread the batter coated peanuts with a spatula while frying. - Rice flour is optional but adding it gives crispness. - The consistency of the batter should not be very loose or thick. Medium consistency is needed for the batter to stick on the peanuts well.