Sichuan Snack Peanuts

Name: Sichuan Snack Peanuts
Yield: Serves 8 to 10 (Makes about 1 quart)
Ingredients: 3¼ cups (1 pound), unsalted dry-roasted peanuts; 2 tablespoons, peanut or vegetable oil; 10 whole dried Sichuan, chiles, stemmed, seeded, and sliced ¼ inch thick on bias (optional); 1 tablespoon, Sichuan peppercorns, plus 1 teaspoon ground Sichuan peppercorns; 2 teaspoons, Sichuan chili flakes; 2 teaspoons, sugar; 1½ teaspoons, table salt; ½ teaspoon, five-spice powder; ½ teaspoon, white pepper

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2023

Side Dishes

Snacks

This next-level spicy, crunchy snack is easy to make and hard to resist.

SERVES8 to 10 (Makes about 1 quart)

TIME20 minutes, plus 1 hour cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

These spicy, pleasantly tongue-tingling peanuts are a popular drinking snack in Sichuan. Though they're commonly made by slowly deep-frying raw, skinned peanuts, we found that we could achieve similar results (and skip the deep frying) by s...

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