De-Skinning Filberts (Hazelnuts)

Submitted by Charishma_Ramchandani

"The toughest thing to de-skin amongst the nuts are filberts or hazelnuts. Here's how one can do it. Note: I am posting water also as an ingredient because the computer won't accept only 1 ingredient."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 2
• Yields: 2 cups de-skinned hazelnuts

ingredients

• 2 cups raw hazelnuts (shelled)
• water, as required

directions

1. Place the filberts in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet.
2. Bake at 275 F until the skins crack. This takes 30 minutes.
3. Transfer nuts to a clean kitchen towel and roll it up.
4. Allow nuts to steam for 5 minutes.
5. Rub nuts in the same towel between the hands until most of the skins come off.
6. Enjoy and use hazelnuts now to make cookies.

Reviews

[Meris]

great help. Although my hazelnuts were done after about 5 min (my oven is a bit dodgy though!) I think this is also called blanching hazelnuts.. i found one other instruction on the internet saying to blanch hazelnuts was to boil them but the majority was just as you suggest. - thanks