Orange-Spiced Pecans Recipe

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For a homemade snack, this recipe is so easy to make. The baked nuts have so much sweet flavor that you will have a hard time to stop eating.—Nell Hood, New Bern, North Carolina

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Orange-Spiced Pecans Recipe

Prep: 10 min. Bake: 10 min. + cooling

Yield: 6 Servings

10 10 20

Ingredients

1-2/3 cups pecan halves
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

Place pecans on an ungreased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake at 275° for 10 minutes.
After 6 minutes, in a small heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, orange juice, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat.
Stir in warm pecans until evenly coated. Spread in a single layer on a foil-lined 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Cool. Yield: about 2 cups.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1/3 cup) equals 254 calories, 22 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 49 mg sodium, 16 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 3 g protein.

Originally published as Orange-Spiced Pecans in Cooking for One or Two Cookbook , p35