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21 ways to cook with peanuts

Sweet or savoury, this nut has you covered.
Peanut and miso shortbread bars

Lemonpi's peanut and miso shortbread bars

Ben Dearnley

The humble peanut finds its home in savoury Asian dishes – think satay skewers, Vietnamese-style salads and kung pao chicken, but has a welcome place in desserts (we’ll always make room for Lemonpiy’s peanut and miso shortbread bars). Its the crunch and occasionally salty hit of peanuts that add texture and dimension to a dish.

Photo: Mikkel Vang

Warm chocolate and peanut butter skillet brownie

Warm peanut butter cookie ice-cream sandwiches with burnt honey
Photo: William Meppem

Warm peanut butter cookie ice-cream sandwiches with burnt honey

Choc-chip peanut butter cookies
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Choc-chip peanut butter cookies

Anticuchos
Photo: William Meppem

Anticuchos

Chicken Satay Skewers
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Fast chicken satay

Peanut-butter tofu buns with burnt chilli mayo
Photo: William Meppem

Peanut-butter tofu buns with burnt chilli mayo

Peanut butter “baklava”
Photo: William Meppem

Peanut butter “baklava”

Aunty Three’s saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs

Aunty Three’s Saigon chicken and cabbage salad with quail eggs

Rojak

Kung pao chicken

Grilled scallops with spring onion and peanut
Photo: Chris Chen

Grilled scallops with spring onion and peanut

Peanut and miso shortbread bars
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Lemonpi’s peanut and miso shortbread bars

Banana, brandy and butterscotch trifle

Ikan bilis with peanuts

Fluffy pancakes with roasted peanuts and sesame seeds (ban chang kuih)

Nougat, salted peanut caramel and milk chocolate tart

Salted peanut-caramel ice-cream with hot fudge sauce

Caramel popcorn sundaes

Spiced peanut popcorn

Carolina rice cakes with boiled-peanut hummus

Peanut brittle

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