Groundnut at Cooking Glossary

What is it? A Jamaican ground nut is actually a Jamaican peanut and is used to make Jamaican peanut butter. The Jamaican peanut is actually a legume not a nut. The nuts (or seeds) have a papery brown skin and are contained in a thin netted tan-colored pod. Jamaican peanuts are also called Jamaican groundnuts?because after flowering the Jamaican plant bends down to the earth and buries its pods in the ground.

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