Baked Masala Peanuts Recipe – Oven Roasted Masala Peanuts Recipe
Baked Masala peanuts is very crunchy and spicy snack you can never say no to. It is very quick recipe you can easily make, all you need is a microwave to make it. Prepare these bite sized delights for friends and family. This will surely make your snack time more fun.
Here is an easy step by step recipe with pictures to make these crunchy and baked masala peanuts. Serve these crispy and spicy baked masala peanuts along with steaming hot cup of tea or coffee or have them as it is. Enjoy
Directions:
Making:
Take chickpea flour in a big mixing bowl and add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt, dry mango powder,. garam masala and asafoetida. Mix everything really well with a spoon.
Now add the peanuts into the chickpea flour mixture along with oil. Mix them really well so that each peanut gets coated with the chickpea flour nicely.
Now drizzle 2 tbsp of water on the peanuts so that the chickpea flour mixture sticks to the peanuts.
Transfer the masala peanuts on a baking tray and spread it so that no peanuts stick to each other. Preheat the oven at 200 degree centigrade. Place the tray inside the oven and bake it on 200 degree centigrade for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, take the tray out and stir the peanuts. Place the tray back inside the oven and bake it for 5 more minutes. Take it out after 5 minutes and stir the peanuts. Place it back inside the oven and bake them for another 3 minutes. 3 minutes later, peanuts will get roasted aptly. It took 18 minutes to bake the peanuts. Allow them to cool down completely.
Serving:
Serve these crispy and spicy baked masala peanuts along with steaming hot cup of tea or coffee or have them as it is. Once the peanuts cools down completely, store them in an air-tight container and relish eating them for 15-20 days.
Suggestion
- Baking time varies from oven to oven. So, firstly bake the peanuts for 10 minutes and then keep baking them for few minutes while checking in-between until the peanuts turns crispy.

- Peanuts – 1 cup
- Chickpea flour – ½ cup
- Oil – 2 tbsp
- Red chilly powder – ¾ tsp
- Turmeric powder – less than ¼ tsp
- Garam masala – ½ tsp
- Asafoetida – 1 pinch
- Dry mango powder – ½ tsp
- Salt – 1 tsp or to taste
- Take chickpea flour in a big mixing bowl and add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt, dry mango powder,. garam masala and asafoetida. Mix everything really well with a spoon.
- Now add the peanuts into the chickpea flour mixture along with oil. Mix them really well so that each peanut gets coated with the chickpea flour nicely.
- Now drizzle 2 tbsp of water on the peanuts so that the chickpea flour mixture sticks to the peanuts.
- Transfer the masala peanuts on a baking tray and spread it so that no peanuts stick to each other. Preheat the oven at 200 degree centigrade. Place the tray inside the oven and bake it on 200 degree centigrade for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, take the tray out and stir the peanuts. Place the tray back inside the oven and bake it for 5 more minutes. Take it out after 5 minutes and stir the peanuts. Place it back inside the oven and bake them for another 3 minutes. 3 minutes later, peanuts will get roasted aptly. It took 18 minutes to bake the peanuts. Allow them to cool down completely.
- Serve these crispy and spicy baked masala peanuts along with steaming hot cup of tea or coffee or have them as it is. Once the peanuts cools down completely, store them in an air-tight container and relish eating them for 15-20 days.
