Get Cooking with Cashew Nuts — wholefoodsmarket.com

My love for cashew nuts began many years ago in a small, local Chinese hangout in downtown Honolulu where I enjoyed an amazing beef and tofu dish with fresh Asian vegetables and roasted cashew nuts. Not long after, while in Bombay, India, I was served steamed basmati rice flavored with ghee, caraway seeds and roasted cashews. I had discovered a little bit of heaven — cashews! I still enjoy cashews today but in ways I never could have imagined. You see, it used to be that cashews were eaten like any ordinary nut. They were roasted and salted and eaten out of hand or perhaps chopped and added to cookies or granola. Most of us could never have dreamed cashews would become the star of so many innovative dairy-free recipes like Lemony Cashew Dressing for salads and slaw and Creamed Kale made creamy with cashews, miso and spices.

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