Toasting And Skinning Hazelnuts - BBC Food

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Toasting and skinning hazelnuts

Last updated6 October 2014

About this technique

Skill level

Easy

Equipment

Wire sieve

High-sided baking tray

Oven

Roasting hazelnuts enhances the flavour of the nuts and loosens their skins. The skins can then be rubbed off more easily.

-Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.

-When the oven is hot, set a timer to 5 minutes. Place the hazelnuts into a high-sided baking tray and roast until browned, checking regularly that they aren't burning.

-Remove the toasted nuts from the oven and tip into a wire sieve. Shake the sieve to loosen the skins from the nuts, picking out any nuts that are completely free of their skins.

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