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Roasted pili nuts are a commercially available product. The nuts are extremely rich and buttery, reminescent of [[Macadamia]] nuts, but a different shape and softer. They are similar to [[candlenut]]s as well. They have a soft, almost flaky crunch.
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Roasted pili nut butter is also delicious, similar to peanut butter but with a darker color and the property that it softens quite a lot and becomes shiny when heated, like melting chocolate.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 08:06, 4 May 2020

Pili
Pili nut (Canarium ovatum).jpg
Unshelled pili nuts from the Philippines
Scientific classification
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C. ovatum
Binomial name
Canarium ovatum

Roasted pili nuts are a commercially available product. The nuts are extremely rich and buttery, reminescent of Macadamia nuts, but a different shape and softer. They are similar to candlenuts as well. They have a soft, almost flaky crunch.

Roasted pili nut butter is also delicious, similar to peanut butter but with a darker color and the property that it softens quite a lot and becomes shiny when heated, like melting chocolate.

Acknowledgements

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Canarium ovatum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.