I've been wanting to make these special treats for a long time, since last year actually. I had everything prepared to make it last Chinese New Year but never got around to it...sigh. I love eating these nuts, it's absolutely my favorite way to eat walnuts!
These Chinese Candied Walnuts, or 琥珀核桃, are just gorgeous: lovely caramel coated walnuts deep fried to a crunchy deep golden brown sheen. It tastes like nothing else, the lick of sweetness of the almost burnt caramel in pleasing contrast to the slightly bitter nuttiness of the walnut. So yummilicious!
This Chinese New Year we made a whole bunch of these delicious traditional symbols of abundance and wealth and presented them, the lovely darling things, to our New Year's guest as part of the selection in our Tray of Togetherness 攢盒.
