Warm Peanut Salad
A unique warm salad featuring tender cooked peanuts combined with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, and spicy chiles in a bright lemon dressing. This refreshing dish offers a perfect balance of textures and flavors.
Ingredients
- •1 lb raw peanuts
- •1 whole bay leaf
- •2 medium tomatoes
- •1 cup fresh cilantro
- •2 whole green chiles
- •2 tablespoons lemon juice
- •¾ teaspoon fine sea salt
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
To skin peanuts, blanch in a 3-quart saucepan of boiling salted water 1 minute, then drain well. Slip off and discard skins using your fingers and transfer peanuts to a bowl.
5 min
- 2.
Bring 5 cups water to a boil with bay leaf in same saucepan. Add peanuts and reduce heat to moderate, then simmer, covered, until peanuts are soft enough to crumble easily when pressed with tines of a fork, about 30 to 45 minutes. (Test 1 or 2 peanuts, leaving the rest intact.) Drain well.
45 min
- 3.
When peanuts are almost finished cooking, stir together tomatoes, cilantro, chiles, lemon juice, and sea salt in a bowl. Add drained peanuts and stir to combine.
5 min
