Today I am sharing with you my method for making homemade peanut butter. The whole process takes five minutes and the end result is delicious. Plus it costs a fraction of what a jar in the supermarket costs!
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I like to use dry roasted peanuts, as it saves me the effort of roasting them. You don’t have to use roasted peanuts, but I just prefer it as I find that roasted nuts give a much richer flavour. That’s part of the beauty of homemade peanut butter, you decide what goes in it.
To make this a little sweeter I like use a teaspoon of maple syrup, but that can easily be replaced with honey or you can skip this step altogether. I just like a little extra sweetness.
You will need an oil for this recipe. Ideally an oil with not much flavour, I like to use vegetable oil or coconut oil as I always have at least one of them in my kitchen. However if you have peanut oil use that as it will enhance the flavour even more. Whatever you do stay away from strong tasting oils such as extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil.
Equipment wise, you need a food processor or a strong blender. Personally I swear by my NutriBullet. The extractor blade is perfect for crushing the nuts and gives me a perfect consistency each time. One thing to note though, is that you should do this in bursts of 30 seconds to prevent your blender from overheating.
I love swirling this peanut butter in some porridge or slathering it on a slice of freshly baked sunflower seed bread.
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Homemade Peanut Butter
Equipment
- Food Processor or NutriBullet
Ingredients
- 340 g Unsalted Dry Roasted Peanuts
- 1 tsp Maple Syrup or Honey
- 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil or Coconut Oil
Instructions
- Pour the peanuts in your nutribullet and blitz them until all the nuts have broken down
- Add in the oil and maple syrup and continue to blend at 30-40 seconds intervals until you have your desired smoothness. Make sure to do it in burst so as to prevent your blender from overheating.
- Please note the end product will be a little runny, but will set once it's in a jar
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