Roasted Almonds with Smoked Paprika & Rosemary Recipe (2024)

These easy (only 5 ingredients!) roasted almonds are the perfect healthy snack. Flavor, flavor, flavor...and tons of nutritional benefits!

Roasted Almonds with Smoked Paprika & Rosemary Recipe

Roasted almonds are a fantastic snack for a serial snacker like me. Not cereal...serial. A little bit of this, a little bit of that - all day long. Sometimes it's hummus and veggies, other times it's olive oil popcorn or carrot cake granola bites, and sometimes I have a huge craving for a handful of nuts.

There was a time when I used to shy away from nuts because I was worried about the calories and fat grams. That is, until my power pump instructor (best class ever!), who keeps up on nutritional research better than I can keep up with my own kids' activity schedules, told me about all of the benefits I was missing out on by avoiding nuts.

What are the health benefits of nuts?

• First of all, the protein, fiber and fat content of nuts is high enough to keep you full. A handful (about 23 almonds, or 1 ounce) is the recommended daily allowance. Split this up between snacks and meals, either eating the nuts straight or including them in salads or other meals. Even though the total fat content in this recipe is 14 grams per serving, only 1 gram is saturated fat. That means that you are benefiting from 13 grams of the good stuff - the fats that that our bodies need to function properly.
• Nuts are also high in magnesium, which can help to prevent hypertension and heart attacks. There is also some evidence that magnesium aids in regulating blood sugar which, in turn, helps to reduce food cravings.

Count me in on all of that!

I've made roasted nuts with rosemary in the past, usually with a dose of brown sugar and cayenne pepper. This time, my mind kept drifting to the that my family is so fond of, and became convinced that this flavor combination would work brilliantly with roasted almonds.

Bingo!

My kids descended on the almonds as soon as they walked in the door from school and I had to hide them in the pantry so that there would be some left for my husband. They were a hit!

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This post was originally published on September 12, 2014 and updated on September 13, 2019.

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