Orange-Spiced Pecans

Name: Orange-Spiced Pecans
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: about 2 cups.
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

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

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 15x10x1-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 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Cool.