Thanks to the amazing healing properties, pine nuts are highly valued all over the world. To date, pine nuts are used in folk medicine, in dentistry, cosmetology, cooking. But despite such popularity, even among fans of this product, few know how to clean pine nuts. It would seem, why bother, look for a way, how to peel the pine nuts, if you can just buy a product ready for use? It turns out that not everything is so simple, and, using purified nuts, instead of a curative effect, one can easily get serious poisoning. What is necessary for the fans of this product to know, and is there a way how to easily and quickly clean the pine nuts at home? Let's try to understand these issues.
How to clean pine nuts?
Unfortunately, none of the folk methods of cleaning nuts can not quickly and easily clear a large number of nuts, however, as the skill is acquired, the process will cease to cause discomfort. The most popular are the following several ways how to clean pine nuts:
- lovers to snap nuts with teeth is useful to know that to soften the shell nuts are soaked for 10-15 minutes in hot water. Inhabitants of the north recommend to crack nuts not like seeds, but slightly squeezing the nut across, in the middle, scroll a quarter of a turn and squeeze again in the center. But do not eat too many nuts, because only 50 g of the product contains 300 kcal.
- Another way to clean pine nuts is as follows. Nuts are soaked in hot water and decomposed on a cutting board. For convenience, nuts can be placed in a bag and evenly distributed on the board, or simply covered with a towel. Next, be careful not to damage the nucleoli, split the shells with a hammer or rolling pin. This method requires a certain skill, but allows you to quickly clear the nuts.
- To clean a small amount of nuts, you can use pliers or a press for garlic. Before cleaning cedar nuts in this way, they should also be soaked in hot water.
- except for mechanical methods, there is a way how to clean pine nuts with the influence of temperature changes. To do this, the nuts are heated in a frying pan and poured into icy water. Using this method, it is important not to over-restrain the nuts in the pan, since from this they will lose their useful qualities.
By the way, before cleaning cedar nuts, it is not superfluous to study the useful properties of the shell of nuts, which has no less valuable qualities than the nucleoli themselves. Decoctions and infusions from the shell, as well as preparations from the kernels of pine nuts, have long been used in folk medicine and cosmetology, and modern studies only confirm the uniqueness of this product.