Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Southern Boiled Peanuts

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Southern Boiled Peanuts. Our step-by-step, photo illustrated recipe for Southern Boiled Peanuts. Grab yourself an ice cold Nehi Soda and lets go to the drive-in. They may take a few hours to complete, but the reward of popping these hot boiled peanuts in your mouth is well worth the wait.

Even though peanuts are members of the bean family, we'd never seen a recipe that calls for boiled peanuts as an ingredient.

So we were thrilled when we came across Boiled Peanut Hummus at a Georgia restaurant.

Once you taste it, you'll thank the chef who created it for realizing that peanuts would be a delicious substitute for the traditional chickpeas.

You can cook Southern Boiled Peanuts using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Southern Boiled Peanuts

1. It’s of Hardware.

2. Prepare 20 quart of pot.

3. It’s of Ingredients.

4. It’s 3 of (1.5) pound bags of raw shell peanuts.

5. You need 2 1/2 gallon of of spring water, for the soak.

6. Prepare 2 1/2 gallon of of spring water, for the boil.

7. You need 2 of cups of sea salt.

8. You need 2 of smoked ham hocks.

9. Prepare 2 of jalapeno peppers, split.

10. Prepare 1 of can of beer, (your choice).

Easy to make, southern boiled peanuts or as they are sometimes called, goober peas, are a true Southern delicacy and a flavorful snack or appetizer.

After just one taste of these delicious, juicy, briny, soft legumes you will be hooked and like the old potato chip saying, "I'll bet you can't eat just one!" A bag of boiled peanuts is briny.

It's pulled from a cooler, filled with salty shells—some hard, some soggy—surrounding tender peanuts within.

Choose one from the bag, and crack it open with deft pressure of the back molars.

Southern Boiled Peanuts step by step

1. Add the 3 bags of peanuts to the pot along with the presoak water. Cover with the lid and let sit over night. (24 hours).

2. Drain the peanuts and set them aside. Wash out the pot, removing any grit from the peanuts..

3. Add another 2.5 gallons of spring water. Add the salt, ham hocks, peppers, and beer to the pot. Bring to a boil..

4. Once the boil begins, add the peanuts back in and let them boil for 2 to 4 hours. After the first 2 hours, begin pulling out a peanut every 30 minutes and tasting. Once they get slightly al dente, turn off the heat..

5. Now here is the trick to making tasty boiled peanuts. Leave the peanuts in the brine while the pot cools. I was told that lets peanuts soak up extra flavor…..and it does..

6. Grab a another cold beer and enjoy..

Discard the shell, eat the meat.

It's just water, salt, and peanuts, and it tastes like summer in the South.

Hot Boiled Peanuts are a traditional Southern snack perfect for football games and fall drives!

This easy version lets the slow cooker do all the hard work!

Growing up, as soon as the weather started turning a little bit colder, my Daddy was ready to drive up into the North Georgia mountains for the weekend.