Shelled hazelnuts have a particularly full flavor and are often used in ground form for fine cakes or biscuits. Even when snacking on the healthy kernels, there is no problem with the skin, which often has a slightly bitter taste.

Hazelnuts lose their skin when roasted

Roasted skinned hazelnuts

In order to be able to skin hazelnuts, they must first be removed from the hard shell and then roasted.

  1. Take a nutcracker and use it to scoop the nuts out of their shells.
  2. Take a large pan, preferably with a non-stick coating, and heat it on the stove.
  3. Add the cracked nuts and roast them without adding fat.
  4. Always toss the pan back and forth to avoid burning the nuts and spoiling the flavor.
  5. If the pan is ovenproof, you can also put it in the oven with the nuts for about ten minutes at 180 degrees.

Due to the heat, the thin shell of the nuts dries out and bursts open.

  1. Check the roasting so that the nuts do not burn in the oven.
  2. If the skins have split open, remove the pan from the stove or oven and dump the nuts onto a clean tea towel.
  3. Fold the corners of the cloth inward over the nuts.
  4. Rub the palms of your hands over them to separate the shells from the nuts.
  5. Always sort out the shelled nuts.

Repeat the process until all the nuts are skinless.

  1. You can also put the hazelnuts back in the pan or oven if the skin isn't toasty enough.
  2. There is also the option to place the nuts under the grill for a short time until the skin bursts.
  3. Heating in the microwave for about a minute and a half also gives a good result. However, the nuts shelled in this way lack the delicious roasted aromas.

Hazelnuts skinned by scalding

Similar to almonds, the cracked hazelnuts are scalded with boiling water. Heat and water loosen the brown skin and it can be peeled off. However, this work is quite laborious, since the skin comes off only in small pieces. In addition, the delicious roasted aromas are also missing here.

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