Nutrition
Roasted groundnuts
Ingredients
• 100 grams of groundnuts
• 3 tablespoonfuls of salt
• 330 ml water
• 2 cups of sea/river sand
Preparation
• Remove foreign materials like stones or dirt from groundnut.
• Wash it to make it clean.
• Put water on groundnut in saucepan and add salt.
• Cover and allow to boil
• Strain water off. Spread out and leave in the sun to dry
• Heat pot with sand (ensure the sand is hot enough)
Pour in the dried groundnuts and stir (to roast)
• Stir occasionally over low heat to avoid burning of the groundnuts
• Check for doneness by peeling and/or tasting a seed of groundnut
• Bring off fire when groundnuts are light brown in colour and roasted
• Pour into a metal colander or cane basket and shake to separate sand from the roasted groundnuts
• Spread out to cool and serve with corn, millet or sorghum porridge, fried or roasted