Peanut Butter Recipe – Cookie and Kate

Peanut butter lovers: Have you ever tried making your individual? I don’t know what took me so lengthy to attempt it. It’s really easy to mix in a meals processor and tastes unimaginable. Take your PB&J to the following stage with do-it-yourself peanut butter.

Selfmade peanut butter is lusciously creamy, with wealthy and irresistible peanut taste. Notably, there’s no grit or annoying oil to stir into the container. Selfmade 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 do-it-yourself peanut butter, you might have full management over the elements. There’s no want for sugar in the event you favor unsweetened peanut butter (although in the event you take pleasure in a little bit sweetness, I’ve choices beneath). There’s definitely no want for oils like hydrogenated vegetable oil or palm oil. My dry-roasted peanuts blended into creamy oblivion with none added oils.

For those who’re excited about making your individual 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.

Selfmade Peanut Butter Suggestions

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 individual.

Begin with unsalted dry-roasted peanuts.

Usually, for nut butters, I begin with uncooked nuts and roast them earlier than mixing. Nonetheless, it’s been troublesome to seek out unroasted peanuts these days. Dry-roasted peanuts are the proper choice. Whereas oiled nuts would work, you’re introducing an pointless ingredient into your peanut butter.

Select unsalted peanuts so you may management the salt stage. Double-check the elements earlier than shopping for (the one ingredient needs to be peanuts) and style them earlier than mixing. Dangerous peanuts will make dangerous 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 a whole 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 comfortable to report that peanut butter blends way more simply than my different nut butter recipes. When you make peanut butter, you’ll need to attempt the remaining!

Watch 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 implausible. With do-it-yourself peanut butter, you might have full management over the sweetness stage. I discovered 1 teaspoon to be calmly 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 in the event you’re a giant 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.

Blended nut butter

Substitute almonds, cashews, pecans, walnuts or pistachios for among the peanuts.

Peanut Butter Serving Recommendations

I really like peanut butter for breakfast. It’s arduous to beat peanut butter on toast! To take it to the following stage, 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 in the event you’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!

After all, 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 know the way your peanut butter seems within the feedback! I really like listening to from you.

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