Peanut Brittle
A community recipe by Recipe LadyNot tested or verified by Nigella.com
Introduction
Do you want to know what will keep the men in your life happy? Nope, it's not as Jerry Hall says. It's all about peanuts and sugar. And it's easy peasy. Both my thirty something year old man and my two year old man go crazy for salty, sweet, crunchy peanut brittle. Maybe it's because it's shiny, maybe it's the satisfying crack as it's broken. Who knows. I'm pleased anyway as it's a storecupboard make. The only bad thing about this recipe is that it all needs gobbling up in about 2 days. It starts to ooze sugar and stickiness if you leave it any longer. It won't last that long though. So nothing to lose sleep over. Dentists may disagree that this is the only bad thing.
Do you want to know what will keep the men in your life happy? Nope, it's not as Jerry Hall says. It's all about peanuts and sugar. And it's easy peasy. Both my thirty something year old man and my two year old man go crazy for salty, sweet, crunchy peanut brittle. Maybe it's because it's shiny, maybe it's the satisfying crack as it's broken. Who knows. I'm pleased anyway as it's a storecupboard make. The only bad thing about this recipe is that it all needs gobbling up in about 2 days. It starts to ooze sugar and stickiness if you leave it any longer. It won't last that long though. So nothing to lose sleep over. Dentists may disagree that this is the only bad thing.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
- 100 grams salted peanuts
- 100 grams caster sugar
- 3½ ounces salted peanuts
- 3½ ounces superfine sugar
Method
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Show more commentsReally easy, but be careful not to cook at too high a heat. Agree with other comments, try half amount of nuts. Delicious!
Has anyone tried this with 'Golden' caster sugar? I want to know if it's the same or better? Thanks.
Tried this recipe tonight but I just doubled the sugar and it is wonderful
I followed the measurement and made it with roasted mixed nuts and it was yumm.
I tried it today and recipe amounts are wrong, far too many nuts, only needed about 50g It was all nut and "hey where's the toffee" ! In the bin it went.
At first I thought the recipe might have been inaccurate, however i went ahead and tried it and found that for 100g of caster sugar there is way too much peanuts. With most of the volume made up of the nuts, you don't quite get that "slab" of peanut brittle you're looking for.