— Nicole Ponden

It depends on what the function of the nut is in the recipe and You know when it comes to to ingredient substitutions more broadly, we need to look at the various functions or roles of that ingredient in the recipe rarely does a recipe serve a single function. I mean, usually it's multifaceted and so, you know, we'll need to look at multiple ingredients as a substitute substitution for that one ingredient that we're omitting. So, please keep that in mind, you know, when it comes to, you know nuts, you know, sometimes beans can serve that purpose now one difference is between those two categories of food. Is that not tend to be fatty and beans tend to be a stringent which are that opposes each other especially from real talk about culinary standpoint, but, you know, even from a Sort of a function in the body standpoint where astringent foods can dry out the food your body. Excuse me from the inside if eaten in excess, okay, but we're not going to do that. Right? We're going to maintain a balanced diet, but when I'm getting at is if you're substituting beans then you might consider adding some fat right whether it's a fatty ingredient, you know, like a whole food or some oil in order to bring in the mouth feel from that culinary perspective that would change right once you pull that nuts and bring in something like legumes. Okay, maybe other seeds like sunflower seeds could be a substitution. Those are going to be oily. They're gonna have many similar properties to nuts. Keep in mind that the flavor will shift right whether we're using a seed in place of a nut or a bean in place of a nut or something else. So as we make ingredient changes, please be open to a slightly different end product and sometimes a very different end product depending on how much of a change we're making to our world of cooking. Okay. So Nicole, you know when you run across specific examples where you want to pull out nuts, please send us a message at support@rouxbe.com, you know, including the recipe that is the original recipe and we can we can go from there and do some troubleshooting and find a solution that will work for you. Okay. Thank you.