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Whether you’re fueling up at home or on the run, the rich and filling taste of these hard-shelled fruits of nature can give you just the energy you need.

By Nicki Miller and Justin McChesney-Wachs

Nut Power!

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Peanut Soup Peanuts Inspired by African and The most common nut butter is a staple in many Asian dishes, this version is This is one of the commercial nut pantries, but most runners don’t realize just how healthy simple to make but will still that’s much more difficult to find. Good it is. Peanuts (officially legumes) are high in the complex impress. (Just make sure thing you can make your own (see page DIY TIP B-vitamin biotin, which helps regulate blood sugar, as no one has a nut allergy, 67). The antioxidant levels in pecans are Chocolate and nut Gluten-Free well as manganese, which is good for bones. Peanuts since the nuts are not especially high and they also deliver a good butters are a combo Bites contain a number of antioxidants (including red wine’s immediately apparent!) dose of magnesium, which studies have you may not be able These are such easy resveratrol), which means these legumes are effective for Serves 6–8 shown reduces inflammation in the arteries to resist. Try adding cookies to make, and Runners have long-fueled fighting off cancer. and can help arthritis. cacao nibs to your they are so quick, recipe for a little you can toss them with —but 1 Tbsp. canola oil cocoa crunch. together for guests at in the past few years, 1 medium onion, diced the last minute. The other nut butters have ½ fennel bulb, diced 3 carrots, diced first three ingredients angled for the spotlight DIY Tip 1 red bell pepper, seeded Nuts are staples (though AND on our sandwiches and If you like the taste of and diced you can use a different Skippy add a spoonful 14.5 oz. can diced tomatoes nut butter or make it spoons. From almond to of sweetener to your 2 cups water Bolt egg-free) and you can , any nut can be mix. Get creative and try Salt and pepper to taste get creative with your ground into a creamy or local honey, real maple Pinch of cayenne (or more own add-ins. syrup, brown sugar or to taste) Makes about 18 cookies crunchy paste, so how coconut sugar. 2 cups broth do you choose? Here are 1 cup peanut butter for a blueprint Juice of 1 lime 1 cup pecan butter our top picks for which recipe on how Lime zest 1 cup coconut sugar nuts runners should go to make any nut 3 scallions, chopped (or sugar), plus more butter, turn to for. The recipes taste just for rolling page 67. Heat oil in soup pot over 1 egg as good if you buy the medium heat. Sauté onions, Artisana Organics 1 Tbsp. ground chia butters pre-made (and fennel and carrots till onions Pecan Butter seeds are translucent, about 5 Squeeze Packs 1 Tbsp. ground we included our favorite minutes. Add red pepper ($2, artisanaorganics. flaxseed brands), but homemade and sauté another 5 minutes. com) mixes are usually more Add tomatoes, water, salt, Preheat oven to 350 pepper and cayenne, and degrees. Line a baking economical and often cook for 20–30 minutes, or sheet with parchment more natural too! until carrots are soft. In a paper and set aside. small saucepan, heat broth Mix ingredients to boiling. Turn off heat together in a bowl or and whisk in peanut butter; with a food processor. pour this into a blender and Put extra sugar in a add about half of the cooked small bowl. Roll a soup. Blend until smooth, small ball of cookie and pour back into soup pot. dough in extra sugar Stir to combine and add lime Essentially with your hands or juice. Garnish each serving Coconut spoons, and place on with lime zest and scallions. Honey Pecan ($12, baking sheet. Allow essentiallycoconut. room between cookies com) for them to spread out while baking. Bake for 10–12 minutes. Allow to cool for 1 minute before transferring to a Bliss Nut- Wild Friends Larabar cooling rack. Butters Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter Nuts Cinnamon Chia Peanut Butter Cookie ($1.80, Bobo’s Oat Bars AND Seed Peanut ($1.10 for 1.15 oz., larabar.com) Gluten Free Butter ($7, wildfriendsfoods. Maple Pecan ($3, Bolt blissnutbutters. com) bobosoatbars.com) com)

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Almonds DIY Idea is available in most grocery stores, Adding sea salt to These nuts are a good fuel for athletes, thanks Nuts often right alongside peanut butter. Almonds are homemade nut butter to their combo of protein and high potassium— AND great for runners, since they are particularly high gives it a little extra both great for muscles. Pistachios are also linked in vitamin E, an antioxidant that protects against zing. Start with less to healthy cholesterol levels, immune systems, Bolt toxins, and they deliver a punch of potassium, than you think you skin and eyes. There aren’t many products which encourages muscle recovery. need and add to that include pistachios, but now that you can taste. buy shelled pistachios more easily (thank you, Costco), you can make your own.

Pistachio Romesco Sorbet Sauce No ice cream maker This Spanish sauce is required for this delicious Wilderness Poets a great dip with crusty sorbet that tastes as Raw Pistachio or works well creamy as gelato. You’ll Butter Snackers with grilled meat or need a powerful blender ($17 for 4-pack, veggies. and a tamper to mash wildernesspoets.com) Serves 6–8 down the ingredients. If you want to start this 1 large tomato, quartered recipe with pistachios, you 1 large roasted red can make the nut butter pepper and then add the other ½ cup almond butter ingredients. (We used 1½ 1 slice crusty bread, cups roasted and salted toasted and cut up pistachios.) 2 garlic cloves, smashed Serves 6 2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar ½ tsp. smoked paprika 1 tsp. kosher salt, or more 1 14-oz. can low-fat Sky Island Organics to taste coconut milk, frozen into ice Pistachios Alive! 2 Tbsp. Italian parsley, cubes ($24, chopped 1 cup pistachio butter skyislandorganics.com) ¼ cup olive oil ¼–½ cup honey (depending on how sweet Pulse all ingredients, you want it) except the olive oil, in 1 tsp. salt (if nut butter is a food processor until unsalted) smooth. Continue to Chopped pistachios for pulse and slowly add the topping DIY Idea olive oil until combined. Get fruity with dried Serve room temp, or you Place coconut milk, cranberries, tart cherries, can heat it up. pistachio butter, honey and blueberries, goji berries salt (if needed) in a high- or coconut. If you’re speed blender. Use the using larger dried fruits, tamper to push everything chop them up before you down and blend on high press the power button. until smooth, about 2 minutes. Transfer to chilled Mediterra serving bowls and garnish Yogurt & Oat Bar Barney Butter Justin’s Maple Perfect Bar with chopped nuts, or place With Apricot & Nuts Almond Butter Almond Butter Almond Acai Lite in freezer for a firmer frozen Pistachio ($2, AND Crunchy ($12, justins.com) ($3, perfectbar.com) treat. mediterranutrition. ($1 for 0.6 oz., com) Bolt barneybutter.com)

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DIY Nut Butter Cashews Nutsy Sauce You can make just about This Asian-style sauce is quite any nut butter if you have Walnuts are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which The delicate flavor of cashews makes a versatile. Use it as a dipping a powerful blender (like a help with inflammation and even prevent the tasty versatile nut butter that you don’t sauce for potstickers or veggies, Vitamix) and 10 minutes to breakdown of bone. This richly flavored nut want to overpower with other ingredients. toss with some noodles or whisk spare. Food processors work means a little can go a long way, and its hearty Nuts Cashews have less fat than most other nuts too, but you may get a slightly AND in some water (or extra oil and taste is perfect for when temperatures are and most of that fat is the heart-healthy vinegar) to thin it out and use as a courser consistency. cooling down. kind found in olive oil. They are also high salad dressing. Makes about 2 cups Bolt in copper, which aids your body in using iron and is good for the development of Makes about 1 cup 2½ cups nuts (raw, salted, both bone and connective tissue.  sprouted or roasted—see ½ cup cashew butter which you like best!) Kale- 3 Tbsp. olive oil 2 Tbsp. oil, optional (if you Pesto 2 Tbsp. rice vinegar want a smoother This nutritious pesto 1 Tbsp. soy sauce consistency) works as well with Juice of 1 lime Honey, maple syrup, brown hot pasta as it does ½ tsp. red pepper flakes sugar or coconut sugar, to on bruschetta. You ¼ tsp. kosher salt taste, optional ½ tsp. pepper can also use this as a 2–3 Tbsp. water Put everything in your choice spread on sandwiches of machine and blend until or atop chicken or Blind Spot DIY TIP Whisk all ingredients except water smooth. Push the tamper pork. Nut Butters Up the nutrition in a small bowl. Add water at the down if using a blender, and Makes about 2 cups Squirrelly Tail ($11, quotient—and end to thin the sauce if it’s too thick. stop a few times to scrape blindspotnutbutters. texture—of your the sides if you have a food 1 bunch Lacinato com) spread, and toss in processor. Butter will keep for (dino) kale, stems some chia seeds or up to 2 weeks in the fridge in removed flaxseed. an airtight container. Enjoy! ¼ cup walnut butter 1 garlic clove, smashed ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, grated DIY TIP Zest of one lemon Turn to your spice Juice of one lemon rack for this butter, ¾ cup olive oil and consider adding Kosher salt and freshly cinnamon, nutmeg, ground pepper to allspice, ground cloves, taste ginger and even Bogg’s Trail cardamom for a chai Butter Mountaineer Blanch kale in a large tea flavor. Maple ($5 for 4.5 oz. pot of boiling water for pouch, trailbutter.com) 1 minute. Drain and place kale in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking and preserve the color. Remove from the ice water and squeeze out the excess water. Process all ingredients in a food processor until your desired smoothness Earnest Eats is reached. Adjust Apple Ginger seasoning, lemon juice, Energy Bar Parmesan and olive oil ($21 for 12 bars, Crazy Probar Bite Chocolate NuttZo 2go to your taste and desired earnesteats.com) Richard’s Cherry Cashew ($2, Power Fuel consistency. Nuts Cashew theprobar.com) ($1.40 for AND Butter 0.5 oz., nuttzo. ($9–$10, com) Bolt crazyrichards. com)

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