spiced nuts – perfect party snackage

When a bar serves freshly roasted spiced nuts along with my cocktail I am in heaven. But more often than not, my cocktail drinking now happens at home with friends. This recipe is inspired the bar snacks I once had at The Union Square Café in New York, it is such an easy recipe to make at home and will make you and your guests feel totally spoiled. It is a brilliant one to have up your sleeve for impromptu parties over the holiday period.

How to perfectly balance your spiced nuts

These spiced nuts have just the right balance of salt, spice and sweetness to get your taste buds going, but they won’t leave you too stuffed to enjoy your dinner. They also give you maximum opportunity to inflict ‘toasted nut’ comments on your guests.

You can mix up the nuts to suit any allergies you are catering for, be sure to buy raw, unsalted nuts so you can control the flavour. I think a mixture of three types of nuts is perfect, but I often make this to use up odds and ends of nuts that I have in the cupboard too.