Comments on: Roasted Cashews

By: nanette

nanette — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:14:26 +0000

roasted cashew nuts with the skin on are a delicacy of cuyo, palawan – my hometown. these are usually ordered and not bought in markets. those found in the mainland of palawan maybe bigger but the ones from cuyo tastes better. my husband’s officemates attest to that.

By: mar

mar — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:22:03 +0000

hi mm! have you tried vacuum processed whole cashew nuts from house of nuts? yummy!

By: erleen

erleen — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:06:24 +0000

he juices it the same way you juice your santol…he rolls the yellow part like a lemon then slices it in half, squeezes it(though no juice seems to come out of it) then throws the whole lot in, together with ice and sugar.

looks a bit like guyabano juice but is sweet and tastes the same as the fruit smells =)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:16:38 +0000

erleen, that sounds so natural, so good… you are the first person I have heard from that drank the juice from the pulp…what did it taste like?

By: erleen

erleen — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:29:08 +0000

i remember when we were young, we will pick our kasoys from the tree. my dad will juice the yellow part(he juices everything anyway) and we will get the seeds and then some dayami(dried grass works too.) We will light the grass and put the seeds on top of it. you would be amazed how flammable the seeds are.

when it burns out, we enjoy the best cashews ever!

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:31:46 +0000

ayoko ng kaasoy

By: Jose

Jose — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:22:20 +0000

More specifically, I believe much of the cashew nuts coming from Palawan are from Cuyo, a group of islands comprising a town of Palawan located between Panay and Palawan, which is also a major source of dried fish.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:52:34 +0000

Vicky, thanks for that…I suppose it is very well possible that the kasoy are from Antipolo… what a revelation for me! However, it seems the bulk of Philippine kasoy produced (up to 90% of the 2.6 million fruit bearing trees in the archipelago as of the mid-90’s) comes from the province of Palawan. Other major production areas include Ilocos, Central Luzon, Northern Mindanao and Western Visayas. But at any rate, thanks so much for pointing this out…I learn something every day!

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:48:03 +0000

Roasted cashew nuts with balat (skin) are uniquely from Antipolo. These delicious nuts are available all-year round in
the Pasalubong market beside the Antipolo cathedral. A great portion of a barrio in Antipolo known as Bosoboso is planted to thousands of old cashew trees. Nuts are picked in the summer months. I suspect that the lady kasoy peddler in Divisoria is from Antipolo! Even the adobong kasoy was first introduced in this hilly town.
I have been to Palawan market, nowhere did I find roasted kasoy with the skin. Bataan is also a major producer of local cashew nuts, and their kasoy nuts is likewise sold without the skin.
Antipolo supplies the cashew nuts requirements of a major ice cream maker and a well-known bakeshop chain.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:24:14 +0000

Interestingly, the skin of a raw cashew contains poisonous oils that are burned off during roasting. The smoke produced during the process is still poisonous though. We used to make sure the wind is blowing in the right direction away from the chicken coops when we roast them because we were told by local farmers that the smoke is noxious enough to kill poultry. Not sure how the fumes affect humans if at all. Maybe we should be looking at the medical files of the kasuy tindera.