Maple Glazed Pecans 3 Ingredients

They’re sweet, a little salty, and have the perfect crunch! These glazed pecans are so tasty, you’ll want to make up a batch immediately for topping all your salads. Alex and I made these to top our Spinach Apple Salad, and kept the leftovers in our cupboard. Our 3-year-old Larson has become enamored with them as a treat, asking with a sneaky smile, “Mama, can I have a pecan?” So these work as a “healthy” version of candy, too. (Ha!) Keep reading for how to make them! Also try: Perfect Candied Pecans

What’s in this pecans recipe?

This glazed pecans recipe has only 3 ingredients! Yes, 3 ingredients to make the tastiest treat: and there’s no refined sugar either. Here’s what you’ll need:

Raw whole pecans (if roasted is all you can find, you can use those too!)Pure maple syrup (none of that fake stuff, now!)Kosher salt

Yes, this glazed pecans recipe is naturally sweet using maple syrup. You’ll notice that we use maple in many of our dessert recipes and even in our cocktail recipes to sweeten them! It’s our favorite natural sweetener around here, hands down.

How to make glazed pecans: the basic steps

There’s really only one part of this glazed pecans recipe that’s “tricky”: making sure you don’t cook them too long! Here are the basic steps (or go straight to the recipe!):

What if I cook them too long?

Good question! If you cook these maple glazed pecans too long, here’s what happens. The maple turns from shiny to powdery! You end up with something that looks like sugared pecans instead. Is that bad or wrong? Not at all! We compared two batches flavor-wise, and they both tasted great! So never fear if you cook them too far. They come out a bit crunchier as sugared pecans, and they taste just as good. They’re just not shiny like they are above.

How to serve glazed pecans

How to serve these shiny glazed pecans? They’re a perfect easy salad topping (even better than croutons, in our opinion). Here are a few great ways to use them: What other ways would you serve glazed pecans? Let us know in the comments below! And if you want more pecan recipes, here are our Top Pecan Recipes to choose from.