Boiled Green Peanuts

[charlie sherrill]

These aren't the same as boiling months or years old peanuts. Down here in Mississippi and other Southern states farmers are starting to harvest their peanut crops. Roadside stands are starting to get fresh dug peanuts to sell. These are the best ones to boil. I've got a pot going as I write this that contains ten lbs. of fresh dug peanuts. The recipe is simple. Get a large pot and add some spicy shrimp and crab boil and salt to taste. Bring to a boil and pour in the desired amount of peanuts. Bring it back to a boil and cook until they are tender. Turn off the heat and let sit and cool a bit and allow the peanuts to soak up the seasoning and salt. Add beer or your favorite libation. The process usually takes about two hours. Start sampling after about 1 1/2 hours. Don't eat too many until they are fully cooked or you'll pay for it tomorrow.

 

[redlevel]

Eating a "bait" of boiled peanuts as I type. A true Southern delicacy. We don't do the Cajun seasoning here in Jawga, but if after you eat a quart or so, if your lips aren't shriveled , they ain't salty enough.

I must have boiled several hundred bushels in my life, mostly in an old cast iron wash pot, fired with fat lightard kindling. My brother and I sold them every summer from the mid-50s through the early-mid 60s.

First firearm I ever bought with my own money, made selling peanuts, was a Marlin 39A in 1959. I was ten years old that summer. That old .22 is still one of my most prized possessions.

 

[Rustyt1953]

It's been a long time since I've had boiled peanuts. Even longer is the last time I heard "lightered knot" was when dad threatened to take one to me.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Long, long time since I was in Georgia so I have not had boiled fresh peanuts lately. Here in Colorado I suspect there are no peanuts much under 2 or 3 years old, mostly roasted and salted, come in a can with a goofy looking character on the label, used primarily to increase beer sales at the local VFW Post.

Used to buy the unsalted peanuts for the neighborhood critters to eat. You can just about tame 3 generations of squirrels to sit and wait for the next peanut if you are willing to spend the time on the patio. Occasionally a bluejay will join in to the game, and the lessons in close combat drill will be administered by a big old squirrel I like to call "Fat Bob" (he reminds me of the tanks on an old Harley Davidson motorcycle, probably weighs 3 lbs or more!). Fat Bob has also been known to get tired of waiting his turn, running right up my leg and going for the mother lode. After seeing what he can do to a nasty old bluejay I have learned not to make a contest of it.

 

[Onomea]

... The recipe is simple. Get a large pot and add some spicy shrimp and crab boil and salt to taste. Bring to a boil and pour in the desired amount of peanuts. Bring it back to a boil and cook until they are tender. Turn off the heat and let sit and cool a bit and allow the peanuts to soak up the seasoning and salt. Add beer or your favorite libation. The process usually takes about two hours. Start sampling after about 1 1/2 hours...

So, when you eat 'em are they wet, or damp? You say cook 'em 'til they're tender. Do you shell 'em first, before cooking? Sounds like you don't wait for 'em to dry out.

I guess they are not crunchy like your typical salted peanut right after you pop the lid on a fresh jar or can of 'em.

I'd like to try 'em if get a chance someday.

 

[ldausmc1369]

Fat lightered knots and boiled peanuts…brings back my misspent youth in South GA, NW Fl and SE AL….redneck Heaven and proud of it!

 

[bigwheelzip]

You can have mine....

 

[444 Magnum]

You can have mine....

We gave some to a friend in Montana. When asked how she liked them, she responded "they're too chewy". We laughed when we realized she wasn't shelling them.

Maybe that's why you don't like them, bigwheelzip...(smiley face) why can't I insert one?

 

[tops]

The only thing worse than a boiled peanut is....................after thinking about it there is nothing worse than a boiled peanut. Larry

 

[444 Magnum]

The only thing worse than a boiled peanut is....................after thinking about it there is nothing worse than a boiled peanut. Larry

Larry, you must not have seen the thread about the cow tongue...

 

[BigBoy99]

Tried boiled peanuts and they are something I will leave for others. I thought they were disgusting. They must be an acquired taste.

 

[sureshotbob]

I can't comment on boiled peanuts as I've never tried them.
I'll try anything once but if I don't like it that's it never again.

 

[OLDSTER]

A worked periodically in Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, in 2003-2005. I got so I really liked boiled peanuts, sort of like the sunflower seeds we love up here.

 

[WardenRoss]

So, when you eat 'em are they wet, or damp? You say cook 'em 'til they're tender. Do you shell 'em first, before cooking? Sounds like you don't wait for 'em to dry out.

I guess they are not crunchy like your typical salted peanut right after you pop the lid on a fresh jar or can of 'em.

I'd like to try 'em if get a chance someday.

Hot boiled peanuts is dangerous.

If they be fresh from the field, and fresh from the pot, you just caint stop eatin them. You caint do no work either. Ya just sit there...eatin. Of course, ya gotta toss one towards the dog, every now and then. It makes their tail wag.

Well mannered folk, have a galvanized bucket in which to throw they hulls. It ain't polite to drop the hulls on the floor. That's why it be best to eat 'um outside. Those hulls do pile up fast. You don't want momma interrupting your peanut eatin to fuss about them hulls on the porch.

Grandaddy called them Goober Peas, or just Goobers. And yes, they are boiled in they shell. The shelled peanuts are parched in a oven. Parched peanuts is another story, entirely.

We keep a jar of the parched peanuts unsalted. We use them to refill our pockets fer training the bird dogs. They will fight over a parched peanut, or be real good and obedient just to get one.

We got to go.

,

 

[Jessie]

In answer to the question of whether they are soggy or not, they'd better be!
Soggy and salty and you basically squeeze the shell to open it and slurp that soggy nut out of there.
I don't know about it being an acquired taste. I liked them at the first one.

 

[jimmyj]

Idea: why not have a "Karma" for a quart of boiled peanuts ?

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

You can have mine....

Mine too, never did care for them.

But, I do have a bucket of those "Pine knots" for starting fires. Had them stored for years. One of my most favorite people that I have ever known gave them to me.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[ZGrand]

I'm a native Georgian, but I must admit I never ate a boiled peanut till my wife got me to try some. I wasn't too impressed at first, but they do grow on you. In my youth, peanuts were always the salted, roasted, redskin variety we dropped in our six ounce bottles of Coke. But the boiled variety from a good-ole roadside stand is about all we buy these days.

 

[WardenRoss]

Mine too, never did care for them.

But, I do have a bucket of those "Pine knots" for starting fires. Had them stored for years. One of my most favorite people that I have ever known gave them to me.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Well Leon,

I have had some Alabama boiled peanuts. I can see why you aren't fond of them.

You gotta get some Worth County, Georgia grown fresh, boiled peanuts.

They are the real redneck caviar.

I bought some Alabama boiled goobers at a Troy State - Jax State football game, one time. I had to throw them large, tasteless thangs in the trash can.

Dooly County or Sumter County, Georgia nuts will work in a pinch.

.

 

[47knuckle]

Love them, but my recipe is 6 lbs green peanuts, 1 1/4 cup salt, large pot with plenty of water outside on the fish cooker. Adds too much heat and moisture into the house for indoor cooking.

Boil for 4 hours, let sit overnight in the salt water.

Boiled peanuts, home grown tomatoes, and country ham are southern delicacies.