Sweet And Sassy Nuts

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 3/4 teaspoon ground chipotle chile pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 30 ounces salted mixed nuts (3- 10 oz cans)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 lightly grease two 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pans with vegetable oil, or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
• 3 in large bowl, with wire whisk, beat egg until foamy.
• 4 add sugar, cumin, chipotle pepper, and cinnamon, and beat until well combined.
• 5 add nuts to egg- mixture; with rubber spatula, stir until well coated.
• 6 spread nut mixture evenly in prepared jelly-roll pans.
• 7 bake on 2 oven racks 20 to 25 minutes or until coating on nuts is golden-brown and dry, stirring once and rotating pans between upper and lower racks halfway through baking for even browning.
• 8 .
• 9 cool nuts completely in pans on wire racks, at least 1 hour.
• 10 with hands, break apart any large clusters of nuts when cool.
• 11 store cooled nuts in tightly sealed containers at room temperature up to 2 weeks.