Boiled peanuts are a snack made by simmering raw or green peanuts for several hours in heavily salted water until they soften. The dish is popular across the Southern United States, West Africa and parts of Asia, and its roots in the American South trace to West African culinary traditions carried across the Atlantic by enslaved people. As they cook, the peanuts take on a strong salty taste and a texture closer to a cooked bean than a roasted nut, since peanuts are themselves a legume. They are commonly eaten as a snack at social gatherings. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduction
Boiled peanuts are popular in some places where peanuts are common.
Uses Ingredient: Peanut, lead paragraph
Boiled peanuts are popular in some places where peanuts are common.
In Cuisine: American Cuisine, Lead paragraph
These are preferred in the United States, being grown in gardens and small patches throughout the South.
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The first recipe for boiled peanuts was published by Almeda Lambert in 1899.
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