- Jul 5, 2021
- 10
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Hi there folks! So, I love smoking almonds in my smoker and have done it for a few years now using various recipes I've found online. While the various spices used change, I've found that, for the most part, the procedure seems to be the same - coat the nuts in some version of oil, add the spices and roast/smoke for awhile. This always seem to yield tasty nuts, but without fail, the spices fall off once the nuts are cooled. I have tried grinding the salt till it's really fine, but even then - naked nuts are always the result.
So, I do a lot of bread baking, and that got me thinking. When I make buns or bread with sesame seeds or poppyseeds on the crust, I brush the unbaked dough with beaten egg white and then sprinkle on the sesame seeds and then bake the buns. Once I forgot, and brushed the buns with melted butter, and the while the sesame seeds stuck initially, the minute the buns were turned over, all the seeds fell off - naked buns.
I am starting to see a pattern here.
So, my question is this - has anyone tried tossing the almonds with beaten egg white instead of the oil or butter normally used? I would guess it would have to be a very small amount of egg white, otherwise the salt would dissolve, right? Has anyone tried it this way?
So, I do a lot of bread baking, and that got me thinking. When I make buns or bread with sesame seeds or poppyseeds on the crust, I brush the unbaked dough with beaten egg white and then sprinkle on the sesame seeds and then bake the buns. Once I forgot, and brushed the buns with melted butter, and the while the sesame seeds stuck initially, the minute the buns were turned over, all the seeds fell off - naked buns.
I am starting to see a pattern here.
So, my question is this - has anyone tried tossing the almonds with beaten egg white instead of the oil or butter normally used? I would guess it would have to be a very small amount of egg white, otherwise the salt would dissolve, right? Has anyone tried it this way?
