Peanut butter lovers: Have you ever tried making your personal? I don’t know what took me so lengthy to attempt it. It’s really easy to mix in a meals processor and tastes unbelievable. Take your PB&J to the following degree with selfmade peanut butter.
Home made peanut butter is lusciously creamy, with wealthy and irresistible peanut taste. Notably, there’s no grit or annoying oil to stir into the container. Home made peanut butter tops all of the store-bought choices in taste and texture, and I’ve tried each pure peanut butter on the market!
With selfmade peanut butter, you’ve full management over the elements. There’s no want for sugar if you happen to choose unsweetened peanut butter (although if you happen to get pleasure from a little bit sweetness, I’ve choices beneath). There’s actually no want for oils like hydrogenated vegetable oil or palm oil. My dry-roasted peanuts blended into creamy oblivion with none added oils.
Should you’re focused on making your personal peanut butter, this recipe is for you! You’ll discover suggestions, variations, and the total recipe beneath—plus a video so you may watch it come collectively.
Home made Peanut Butter Ideas
Peanut butter on toast has been a breakfast mainstay for way back to I can bear in mind. I as soon as begged my mother to ship peanut butter throughout the ocean throughout a semester in France. Seems, all you want is peanuts and a meals processor to make your personal.
Begin with unsalted dry-roasted peanuts.
Sometimes, for nut butters, I begin with uncooked nuts and roast them earlier than mixing. Nevertheless, it’s been tough to search out unroasted peanuts currently. Dry-roasted peanuts are the proper possibility. Whereas oiled nuts would work, you’re introducing an pointless ingredient into your peanut butter.
Select unsalted peanuts so you may management the salt degree. Double-check the elements earlier than shopping for (the one ingredient ought to be peanuts) and style them earlier than mixing. Unhealthy peanuts will make unhealthy peanut butter.
Use your meals processor, not a blender.
I’m nonetheless on group Meals Processor for nut butters, peanut butter included. Nut butters are so thick that blenders, even nice ones like my Vitamix, require quite a lot of handbook assist to get going. It’s simpler to throw the nuts in my food processor and let the processor work it out.
I’m blissful to report that peanut butter blends rather more simply than my different nut butter recipes. When you make peanut butter, you’ll wish to attempt the remaining!
Watch Easy methods to Make Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter Taste Variations
Strive only one or attempt all of them! Crunchy cinnamon-honey peanut butter sounds fantastic to me.
Naturally sweetened peanut butter
Honey and peanut butter is perfection, however maple syrup can be improbable. With selfmade peanut butter, you’ve full management over the sweetness degree. I discovered 1 teaspoon to be flippantly candy, 2 teaspoons noticeably candy and barely honey-flavored (it thickens the combination fairly a bit!), and 1 tablespoon tastes like a deal with, with mild honey taste.
Cinnamon peanut butter
Strive including some floor cinnamon for some warming spice. Use 1/2 teaspoon for delicate taste, or as much as 1 tablespoon if you happen to’re an enormous fan.
Crunchy peanut butter
For some crunch, reserve about 3/4 cup of the peanuts. Mix the remaining as directed, then add the reserved peanuts again to the processor and course of simply till they’re damaged into small bits.
Combined nut butter
Substitute almonds, cashews, pecans, walnuts or pistachios for among the peanuts.
Peanut Butter Serving Solutions
I like peanut butter for breakfast. It’s arduous to beat peanut butter on toast! To take it to the following degree, drizzle it with honey. Stir a dollop of peanut butter into your morning oats to make them extra hearty—attempt my overnight oats, oatmeal, and steel-cut oats.
My toddler’s favourite snack is apple slices with peanut butter dip—merely stir a beneficiant spoonful into some Greek yogurt. Add honey or cinnamon if you happen to’d like.
Flip your peanut butter into one thing candy, like Peanut Butter Oat Cookies, Monster Cookies or Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispy Bars. You may as well use peanut butter to make my Easy No-Bake Granola Bars.
Peanut butter can lean savory, too. Make peanut butter dipping sauce and serve it with spring rolls or drizzle it over these mango burrito bowls. Or make Vegetarian Peanut Soup!
In fact, we will’t overlook the traditional peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which is an everyday in my daughter’s lunch field. You’ll discover extra uses for peanut butter here.
Extra Nut Butters to Strive
Please let me understand how your peanut butter seems within the feedback! I like listening to from you.
Home made Peanut Butter
This peanut butter recipe is very easy to make in a meals processor. Home made peanut butter tastes recent, creamy, and irresistibly peanutty. You’re going to like it! Recipe yields 16 ounces peanut butter (about 2 cups).
- 16 ounces (3 cups) unsalted dry roasted peanuts
- As much as ¼ teaspoon superb salt
- Elective flavorings: 2 to three teaspoons honey or maple syrup, ½ teaspoon floor cinnamon
- Switch the peanuts to a meals processor. Mix till the combination is totally clean and creamy, pausing to scrape down the edges as needed, about 10 minutes. The peanuts will go from flour-like clumps to a ball in opposition to the facet of the meals processor, and at last, the combination will flip lusciously creamy. If the combination will get sizzling alongside the way in which or your machine appears drained, cease and let it cool for a couple of minutes.
- If desired, add a pinch or two of salt, honey and/or cinnamon. Mix till effectively blended, about 30 seconds, then style and add extra if desired.
- Let the peanut butter cool to room temperature, then switch the combination to a mason jar and screw on the lid. Retailer within the fridge for as much as 1 month.
Notes
Uncooked peanut possibility: To roast your personal peanuts, preheat the oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Unfold shelled peanuts throughout a big, rimmed baking sheet and toast the peanuts for 10 to twenty minutes, till properly aromatic, stirring each 5 minutes. Let the peanuts cool till they’re simply heat to the contact (not sizzling) earlier than mixing.
Crunchy peanut butter: Reserve about ¾ cup of the peanuts. Mix the remaining as directed, then add the reserved peanuts again to the processor and course of simply till they’re damaged into small bits.
Make it vegan: Don’t add honey. Sweeten with maple syrup, if desired.
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