Smoked Pistachios - Savory

[cpaysonc]

Decided to see how smoked Pistachios would turn out. Started with pre roasted, lightly salted. Decided to toss them in a roughly a 1/2 tsp of Japanese Tsuru Bishio aged soy, roughly 1 tsp local wildflower honey, and 1 packet of "True Grapefruit", a freeze dried grapefruit powder where 1 packet is supposed to equate to 1 wedge. Smoked at roughly 225 with white oak for about 25 minutes, single layer, stirred at 25, then left in closed Smokin-It #1 with heat off but wood still smoking thin and blue. Pulled 30 minutes later. Started with roughly 1.5 cups since it was an experiment. Will do again! The glaze on the shells and the citrus addition reminded me of roasted Turkish lemon pistachios. Anyway, start and finish:

 

[chopsaw]

Love it . I used to do them a lot , but it's been awhile . St. Louis has a potato chip called " Red hot riplets "
They started selling just the seasoning , so that's what I use . sweet heat type of thing .
Nice work on those .

 

[clifish]

interesting, how much of the smoke made it through the shells....I wish these nuts where not so expensive.

 

[chopsaw]

not so expensive.

My Daughter used to get them for me at Sam's . Huge bag for the price of the small bag you get at the regular grocery store . Gonna have her look at Costco .

 

[clifish]

Costco not so cheap here...then again what is now a days

 

[cpaysonc]

interesting, how much of the smoke made it through the shells....I wish these nuts where not so expensive.

Fresh off the smoker, it's noticeable but subtle.

 

[Compulsive Smoker]

I love this kind of thing! Looks like you did a great job! Thanks for sharing…

 

[normanaj]

Gotta try that!

I'm addicted to pistachios. I eat about 2lbs of them a week,sometimes more.

 

[Steve H]

Love pistachios. These look really good! I've smoked almonds, peanuts, and cashews. Never did pistachios. One of my favorites is spraying butter flavored oil on peanuts. Dusting with Franks powder. And smoking with hickory for an hour or so.

 

[chopsaw]

Dusting with Franks powder. And smoking with hickory for an hour or so.

This is what I use . I bet you'd like it .

 

[cpaysonc]

This is what I use . I bet you'd like it .
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I need to look into that!

 

[chopsaw]

I need to look into that!

It's a popular local made potato chip , then branched out into other stuff , like the seasoning .
They have a sauce too , but I haven't had that .
You can get it on Amazon , not sure how regional it is .

 

[Steve H]

This is what I use . I bet you'd like it .
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Ordered! I thought that was the hot sauce I used to buy. Different name.