It is also grown in India and North America. Each pod matures underground and contains from two to four seeds, also called groundnuts or sometimes ground pistachios. Grilled or salted peanuts are served as cocktail snacks, or they can be used in various recipes. The fruit of a tall tree found in North america. It has a smooth fragile shell enclosing a bilobed brown kernel looking and tasting something like a walnut.
Pecan pie is about one of the most popular recipe made from pecans.
The small oblong edible seed of the stone pine, which grows in the Mediterranean region. Pine kernels are very oily, hence their tendency to go rancid. They taste a little like almonds, but are sometimes more resinous and spicy. They are often used to garnish rice in India and in Turkey, where they are also used in stuffed mussels, poultry forcemeats and mutton balls. The seed of the pistachio tree, native to the Near East.