Hazelnuts Roasted 200g

Hazelnuts are delicious eaten as they are or mixed with your favourite combination of additional nuts, seeds and dried fruits for a tantalising trail mix. With their unique taste and crunchy consistency they can be used in many recipes, such as these Ferrero Rocher Bliss Balls, this homemade healthy version of Nutella and many other recipes for raw bliss balls, cakes and slices. They can be roughly chopped and sprinkled as a crunchy topper on salads, curries, soups and stews, or ground down to make a fresh hazelnut butter.

Humans have been consuming Hazelnuts for about 9000 years. Turkey is the largest producer of hazelnuts in the world with approximately 75% of worldwide production. Hazelnuts have a wide variety of uses which include confectionery, backed goods, Hazelnut Spread/Butter and even flavouring your coffee. The hazelnut is unique in that it blooms and pollinates in the middle of winter. Wind carries the pollen from yellow catkins to a tiny red flower where it stays dormant until June, when the nut begins to form and then fall out of the husk when ripe. In Ancient Rome, it was customary to offer a hazelnut plant, in the belief that it brought happiness.