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Maple Glazed Pecans are lightly sweet, super crunchy and perfect for a simple snack, a charcuterie board, to top a salad or your oatmeal, or in muffins, scones or other baked goods.
Once you make these, you will dream up all sort of uses for them, I promise.
What to do with Maple Glazed Pecans
- Eat out of hand as a snack
Put a bowl of them on your charcuterie or grazing board. In this case, I used them as the trunk of this charcuterie Christmas tree on a plate for two to share.
Sprinkle on your morning oatmeal, or in this case, morning cottage cheese and berries
Include in your homemade granola
Toss on top your mixed green salad to take it to the next level. Here I made a salad of fresh spinach and arugula and topped it with apples, berries, pomegranate arils and Maple Glazed Pecans.- Chop roughly and add some to your scone or muffin batter before baking
- Sprinkle some on rice pilaf at serving time, for crunch
Eating a bowl of chocolate or vanilla ice cream (here, with chocolate sauce)? Sprinkle some Maple Glazed Pecans on top. Mmmmm
Put them on top of a slice of pumpkin pie to add crunch and dress it up- Put them in a pretty jar, label it, tie a bow on it and it becomes a delicious gift!
How to make Maple Glazed Pecans
First, assemble your ingredients. For this recipe, you’ll need:
- Pecan halves
- Maple syrup (the real stuff, not “pancake syrup.”
- Sea salt
- Black pepper
- Optional: chile powder or cayenne powder
Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl, by hand. Stir well to coat all the nuts.
Feel free to leave out the chile powder or cayenne powder, but you are only going to use a tiny pinch, so it doesn’t predominate. Don’t be afraid of it.
Spread on a parchment- or silicone mat-lined baking sheet, and pop in the oven until they are toasted and crunchy.
Serve in any of the ways described above, and let me know if you come up with other ways to use them!
Let’s get on it and make some Maple Glazed Pecans. I promise they’ll be your new favorite thing.
Maple Glazed Pecans are lightly sweet, super crunchy and perfect for a simple snack, a charcuterie board, to top a salad or oatmeal, or in muffins, scones or other baked goods.
Ingredients
- 2 cups pecan halves
- 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- Pinch of fine sea salt
- 3 grinds black pepper
- OPTIONAL: Pinch of chile powder (or cayenne if you like it hotter)
Directions
- Heat oven to 325F degrees. Lay a silicone baking liner (or parchment paper) on a baking sheet. This helps with clean-up later.
- In a bowl, add pecans, maple syrup, salt, pepper and chile powder if using. Stir gently but well, to make sure the nuts are all coated.
- Pour mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, and spread it into a single layer.
- Bake 15 minutes, until the nuts look darker and the syrup is bubbling. Turn off the oven but allow the nuts to rest in the oven for 15 more minutes. This will ensure they are crispy.
- Remove baking sheet from oven and allow nuts to entirely cool. Store nuts in a clean jar or lidded container, at room temperature. If you will be storing them for a very long time, store in the refrigerator or freezer. But once you taste them, I don't think they will last that long.
- Makes 2 cups glazed pecans.
Notes
Recipe source: Dorothy Reinhold | Shockingly Delicious
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Can you use rooted pecans?
Dorothy Henderson,
I’m sorry, I don’t know what rooted pecans are! I looked “rooted pecans” up on Google and it talks about how to plant pecan trees. I just want to emphasize here that we are making very lightly sweetened nuts in this recipe.
Nuts are my favorite snack and these are going to be my most favorite ones. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I love snacking on pecans! They’re so delicious and full of good nutrients. Making them maple glazed makes their maple flavor even better!
Maple grazed pecans have to be one of the most useful things on the planet! (And seriously tasty, of course!)
I am so curious to make these pecan with the maple syrup. They look irresistible!
I have two pounds of pecans to use. Guess what I’ll be making? YUM
Lisa,
Oh YEAH! I make 2 cups of these and keep them in my fridge in a Mason jar and just pull them out as needed!
Big fan of these. So great on a salad!
Absolutely fantastic! I’m excited to make this!
I love maple! and pecans! Ohhh, I am so excited to try your recipe!!
I love pecans and I can’t wait to try this recipe! Looks really good!
That picture of pumpkin pie with these Maple Glazed Pecans on top sure got my attention! 👀❤️ Super yummy, I definitely know how I will be using these when I make them!! 🥧
These look seriously amazing. I’m trying them on a salad and on oatmeal first.
Karen,
They make eating oatmeal a pleasure!
Those sound so good! I love sweetened nuts of any kind but candied or glazed pecans are always my favorite. I love them in ice cream.
Beth,
I agree! Ice cream is a great use for them, and my 2nd favorite thing to do is put them on a fresh green salad!