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Peanuts are amazing! They're not just for snacking; they're used to make tons of yummy dishes and foods all around the world. You might also hear them called groundnuts. This article will show you some of the cool ways peanuts and peanut butter are used in different foods.

Peanut Dishes and Foods

Peanut Chikki
Peanut chikki
Kare-kare
Kare-kare
Kobandravina dessert snack food Antananarivo Madagascar
Sweet koba rolls from Madagascar
Pecel Solo
Peanut sauce with different foods

Peanuts are super versatile! People use them to make all sorts of snacks, meals, and sweet treats.

Snacks and Meals

  • Ants on a log – This is a fun and easy snack! You spread peanut butter (or cream cheese) on a piece of celery and then put raisins on top. It looks like ants marching on a log!
  • Bamba – A popular snack food from Israel that's made with liquid peanut butter. It's often given to babies to help prevent peanut allergies.
  • Beer nuts – These are roasted and salted peanuts. In the United States, "Beer Nuts" is a special brand with a unique sweet and salty coating.
  • Boiled peanuts – A popular snack in many parts of the world, especially in the southern United States. They are peanuts boiled in their shells until they are soft and salty.
  • Chikki – A traditional sweet from India. It's usually made from peanuts and a type of unrefined sugar called jaggery. It's a crunchy, sweet treat.
  • Chocolate-coated peanut – Just what it sounds like! Peanuts covered in a delicious layer of chocolate.
  • Cracker nuts – These are peanuts covered in a crunchy wheat flour dough and then fried. In the Philippines, a brand called Nagaraya is very popular.
  • Deep-fried peanuts – Peanuts that are cooked by deep frying them in oil until they are crispy.
  • Honey-roasted peanuts – A popular snack where peanuts are roasted with a sweet and salty coating of honey, sugar, and salt.
  • Kare-kare – A yummy stew from the Philippines. It's known for its thick, savory peanut sauce and often includes meat and vegetables.
  • Koba – A sweet treat from Madagascar. It's made from ground peanuts, brown sugar, and rice flour, often wrapped in banana leaves.
  • Maafe – A rich stew or sauce popular in West Africa. It's made with a base of groundnuts (peanuts) and can include lamb, beef, chicken, or be made without meat.
  • Mirchi ka salan – A spicy curry from Hyderabad, India, that features chili peppers and peanuts.
  • Peanut brittle – A hard, crunchy candy made from sugar that's been cooked until it's brittle, with peanuts mixed in. When it cools, it breaks into flat pieces.
  • Peanut butter – A very common food paste or spread made by grinding dry roasted peanuts. It's used in so many ways!
  • Peanut butter cookie – A classic cookie where peanut butter is a main ingredient, giving it a distinct flavor and texture.
  • Peanut chutney – A mildly spicy side dish from India, made with peanuts. It's great with many snack and breakfast foods.
  • Peanut flour – Made from crushed peanuts that have had most of their oil removed. It can be used in baking.
  • Peanut oil – A mild-tasting cooking oil that comes from peanuts.
  • Peanut paste – Similar to peanut butter, this product is used as an ingredient in sauces, cookies, crackers, cereals, and ice cream.
  • Peanut pie – A delicious pie that uses peanuts or peanut butter as its main ingredient.
  • Peanut sauce – Also called satay sauce, this is a creamy sauce made from ground roasted or fried peanuts. It's very popular in Asian and African cooking and is used in many dishes.
    • Gado-gado – An Indonesian salad with slightly cooked vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, tofu, and a peanut sauce dressing.
    • Karedok – A raw vegetable salad from Indonesia, also served with a tasty peanut sauce.
    • Ketoprak – A vegetarian dish from Indonesia that includes tofu, vegetables, rice cakes, and rice noodles, all covered in peanut sauce.
    • Llapingacho – Fried potato cakes from Ecuador, often served with a peanut sauce.
    • Pecel – A traditional Javanese salad with mixed vegetables in a peanut sauce dressing.
  • Peanut soup – A warm and comforting soup made from peanuts, often with other ingredients like vegetables or meat.
  • Rempeyek – A crispy, deep-fried cracker from Java, Indonesia. It's made with peanuts, spices, and a flour batter.
  • Scotcheroos – Sweet dessert bars made with chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, and Rice Krispies.
  • Smoki – A popular snack food from Serbia, made from puffed cornmeal with added peanuts.

Peanut Drinks

  • Peanut butter whiskey – A type of whiskey that has a peanut flavor.
  • Peanut liqueur – A sweet alcoholic drink made using peanuts.
  • Peanut punch – A popular drink in the Caribbean. It's made with peanut butter, milk, sugar, and sometimes spices.

Peanut Candies

Buckeyes Peanut Butter Balls(cropped)
Buckeye candy

Many candies and candy bars use peanuts as a main ingredient, making them extra tasty!

  • Buckeye candy – A sweet treat from Ohio, USA. It's a ball of peanut butter fudge partially dipped in chocolate, leaving a circle of peanut butter showing, like the "eye" of a buckeye nut.
  • M&M's – Some varieties of these colorful candies are filled with whole peanuts or creamy peanut butter.
  • Peanut butter cup – A classic chocolate candy with a delicious peanut butter filling inside.
  • Potato Candy Pinwheels – A rolled candy made from mashed potatoes and powdered sugar, usually filled with peanut butter.

Candy Bars with Peanuts

Peanut Sandwiches

  • Fluffernutter – A sweet sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, usually on white bread.
  • Fool's Gold Loaf – A very unique and huge sandwich! It's a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with a whole jar of peanut butter, a whole jar of grape jelly, and a pound of bacon.
  • Peanut butter and jelly sandwich – A classic! This sandwich has layers of peanut butter and jelly or jam on bread.
  • Peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich – Sometimes called an Elvis sandwich, this one has peanut butter, sliced or mashed banana, and sometimes bacon on toasted bread.
  • Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich – A less common but interesting combination!
  • Peanut butter and pickle sandwich – Another unique sandwich idea!

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