For anyone who likes boiled peanuts and have never used a pressure cooker to make them. I have been doing it like this for about 6 years and there are some tricks. I cook them for 25 minutes under pressure then let them cool in the salted water. If you don't let them cool in the water they tend to shrivel up and the salt doesen't get into them.
For those not familiar with regular boiling it takes about 2-4 hours depending on the size of the batch.
Tell me more about boiling peanuts. I'm a peanut addict, but I get the raw shelled jumbo Spanish peanuts, roast them in the microwave, then add butter or margarine and salt. I've never boiled any. I do like the peanuts that are "roasted?" and salted still in the shell. Are you talking about boiling peanuts in the shell or after being shelled?
Boiled peanuts are popular here in the south. You take green peanuts right out of the ground in the shell, wash them good and boil them either in a large pot or as in my case pressure cooker. You add about 1/4 box of salt to a gallon water/peanuts. When cooked they have a cooked bean texture, firm but soft. I've been told you can cook dried peanuts after soaking them but have never tried it.
They are like potato chips in that you can't eat just one! Also the not fully developed peanuts have soft shells and you can eat the hole thing shell and all. Very addictive. They are best when hot but can be kept in the fridge for a couple weeks.
I'd like to try them sometime. It really doesn't sound very good to me, and I have one friend who told me he had tried them and they were terrible. [img]/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] Guess it just depends on your taste. My parents used to like the raw shelled peanuts, and I don't care for that either; I want mine roasted.
Bird, (et al), Don't you recall this ditty?
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
This was a popular soldiers song of the civil war (AKA war of northern aggression)
Lyrics and Music to eatin' goober peas.
As you may well guess soldier wags of the era made up a lot more verses than in this (kid safe) version on this Government web site but they got the tune right!
I (partially) recall several other verses containing words about peas upon a trencher and another about the "Entire Georgia militia, eatin' goober peas." Unfortunately all I could find in the first several hits I examined were what seems to be the SAME shortened and not so image envoking version.
I hadn't seen the lyrics for over 50 years but I recall much of them.
[img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Pat [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
"I'm not from your planet, monkey boy!"
Yep, Pat, I do remember that little ditty. And I might like boiled peanuts, but have my doubts. You know how little things affect us, and we never forget them. I spent 6 weeks in the Crippled Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City when I was 9 years old for surgery on my left foot to correct some the effects of polio. One evening, supper included English peas and peanuts cooked (boiled) together. I'd never seen that before (or since), I didn't like it, but I ate it, and that night I was very, very sick, vomiting, etc. Now I know, logically, that the peas and goober peas likely had nothing to do with my illness that night, but I avoided English peas for years, and fortunately, never again saw any with peanuts in them. I do eat English peas now, but they're way down low on the desireability list. [img]/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]
They are best when hot but can be kept in the fridge for a couple weeks.
They freeze well too, but don't add as much salt if you intend to freeze as they seem to take up the salt more for some reason during the freeze/thaw process. I often boil a bushel when they're available and freeze for later in the year.
I just purchased a pressure cooker, and wanted to cook up a nice batch of boiled peanuts in it. However, I am not sure as to how to go about doing it. How much water & salt do you put in? And you only cook them for 25 minutes? Cool! Sure beats boiling them for several hours!
I try to leave about 1 inch from the top for the water and peanuts. The peanuts don't need to float in the water like when you boil them. I ad about 1/4 box of salt. Once the pressure gets up and starts hissing then you start timing for 25 min. I remove from heat and let cool with the pressure on for about 15 minutes then open and leave in the water until cool. This lets the salt and water to soak in. If you don't let it soak in they are cooked but dry and not salty. Good luck! tim
I know I'm coming in late here but I boiled a batch the other night in a pressure cooker pot. Did not have the gasket in the lid, so basically just boiled them real slow overnight. Used about 7 lbs of dried Valencia peanuts (Hampton Bay brand) and 2 cups of salt. Probably 2 gallons of water. They floated for a long time and I kept stirring at least once an hour to get them water logged. Then turned the burner down to just warm, not even boiling and went to bed. Next morning I turned it back up to barely boiling which was 3 of 9 on the knob and opened one now and then to check for doneness. I didn't have to let them cool in the water for more salty flavor, they had plenty. This was one of the large pressure cooker pots, used as a boiling pot. It's almost as big as a 5 gallon bucket.
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