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Various dry fruit foods cashews, walnuts, Zero Cholesterol Nuts
from: LukwenThis festive season try out these alternative options of nuts ranging from cashew nuts to almonds to walnuts.
Cashews
The Spicy Nut
If you enjoy chatpata (spicy) food, try the spiced cashews. Of course, there is the cheese but there is also the Chinese cashew -- in Schezwan and Manchurian flavours. Both taste almost the same with the former red and the latter black in colour. And you must try the green chilli cashew – it will literally take your breath away and ensure you have smoking ears!
The Sweet Nut
If you are the sweet tooth kid, sweet cashews are divided into what could be termed international flavours and the traditional Indian ones. Chocolate, butterscotch, black current, coffee, vanilla and ice-cream (yes, even that! Tastes just like the old Dukes ice-cream soda) are the global sweet flavours. Among the traditional Indian ones are the faluda and rasmalai. While the chocolate and black current are a perfect blend of the taste of the nut as well the flavouring, we wouldn’t really recommend the rasmalai and faluda. Think, we need to leave those to the mithai.
Fruit N Nut
Then there are the fruit flavours. The orange is a surprising winner – tangy and yet crisp. But strawberry, mango and pineapple do not seem to suit the nut (or perhaps the flavouring is over-done). As for the litchi, well it’s bland almost as if the cashew had no coating.
Snack Time
The snack cashews come in bhajiya and chat masala flavours.
Almonds
Here the options are far more limited. You will find cheese, chocolate and saffron or kesar (in the order of taste).
Walnuts
Among the walnuts, there are simply two options – chocolate and honey – and both are quite delicious. Brain food that tastes as good as its health value.
The Zero-Cholesterol Nut
If you are watching your weight and yet being pestered by the elders to pop all the above nuts, fret not. The zero-calorie nut is here, or so they claim. Flavours range from all the above to more fruit flavours – green apple, lemon, coconut, sweet lime, banana, chikku, rose and mixed fruit. New ones among the spices include – tomato, mint, ginger, garlic, onion and tamarind. Among this, you could order variations of the above in any imaginable combination you can dream of, including a spicy mango. And yet even if all this isn’t enough, there is the caramel, jaljeera and even a hot Mexican cashew!
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