Legumes are a wide group of foods that we recommend adding to the usual diet due to their richness in fiber, vegetable proteins, minerals and vitamins that our body needs. Nevertheless, If you are not a lover of legumes, we recommend including peanuts in your daily table, since it is a different legume from the rest of all legumes.
Peanut: oily legume that we confuse with dried fruit
Peanuts are usually included in the usual diet as if it were a dried fruit. However, They are an oily vegetable. source of vegetable proteins in appreciable amounts and unsaturated fats beneficial for health.
They have carbohydrates in lower amounts than other legumes and a high fiber content, so that in terms of nutritional composition, the peanut closely resembles a nut.
Also, unlike the rest of the legumes the peanut does not require soaking or long cooking to be consumed, therefore we can eat it as such after removing it from its pod or roast it to later prepare various dishes as if it were a dried fruit.
For all this, if you are not a lover of legumes or if you want to get out of the classic stews that are made with them, we recommend including peanut in its natural form or toasted to eat between meals as a snack.
It is also possible to make cookies, a sauté and other dishes such as walnuts, almonds, pistachios or hazelnuts with this oily vegetable.
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