Smokin' Nut Mix

Smokin' Good Christmas Gift

Folks, I know I accept been placidity every bit a mouse lately simply that doesn't hateful I haven't been watching, together with listening....

For all the expert together with naughty out there, hither is a recipe I came upward alongside to part alongside our neighbors this year, together with alongside you lot too. It is sooooo really expert together with sooooooo addictive. For cocktail parties, become ahead together with add together the rounded levels simply spotter out together with drinkable upward my friend 'cause these volition accept a picayune extra boot to 'em.

Enjoy!

Roasted Smoky Nut Mix
Perfect for vacation giving or cocktail parties
makes most four 1/2 cups

i large egg white at room temp
1/2 loving cup brownish sugar
1/2 to i teaspoon bounding main salt
1/4 teaspoon soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper or to gustatory modality (a rounded 1/4 teaspoon for us)
1/2 teaspoon soil chipotle chile pepper (again, rounded high)
i tablespoon Chipotle Pepper Tabasco Sauce (plus several expert shakes for us)
ii cups salted deluxe mixed nuts
1/2 loving cup pecan halves
1/2 loving cup whole cashews
1/2 loving cup whole almonds
1/2 loving cup pepitas or pistachio nuts
1/3 loving cup sunflower seeds
i tablespoon sesame seeds
2/3 loving cup sweetened dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 225°.

Whisk egg white to a froth. Whisk inwards sugar, salt, cinnamon together with cayenne. Beat inwards the Chipotle Tabasco.

Stir inwards all the nuts together with toss to coat well. Add the seeds to pecan mixture; mix well. Place parchment newspaper on a large jelly-roll pan together with lightly coat alongside cooking spray. Rub alongside newspaper towel to fifty-fifty fossil oil out. (Or piece of job the nonstick aluminum foil.) Spread mixture inwards a unmarried layer on the paper.

Bake for i sixty minutes or until almost dry out stirring every xv minutes to redistribute coating.
Remove from oven; cool completely. Break apart together with stir inwards the cranberries.

Store inwards a wax newspaper lined sealed container or inwards sealable bags for gift-giving.

Notes: If you lot cannot uncovering this wonderful how-can-you-live-without-it Tabasco, together with thus piece of job most 1/2 teaspoon regular Tabasco together with to a greater extent than chipotle chile pepper.
If nuts are withal mucilaginous afterwards baking, allow to gear upward inwards warm oven a span of hours to toast.

Last year's gift: Cajun Christmas Chips (pickles)