Does anyone have any really good recipes for homemade nut butters? Any nut, I'm not picky. Hopefully something flavored? I love maple almond butter but can't find any recipes for it!
i found this one online:
Spiced Chocolate Peanut Butter
125 grams (1 cup) raw peeled peanuts
40 grams (1 1/2 ounces) Xocopili (substitute bittersweet chocolate, chopped, plus a teeny-tiny pinch each of ground chili, curry, paprika, and cardamom)
Sea salt, to taste
Makes about a cup.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Spread the peanuts on a rimmed baking sheet and roast for 5 to 7 minutes, keeping an eye on them and stirring halfway through, until golden and fragrant. Let cool.
Combine the nuts and chocolate in a food processor, and process until the mixture turns creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl every once in a while. This will take a few minutes, and you may want to sing your latest favorite song (such as Forgotten Christmas Gift) at the top of your voice to cover the sound of the motor and keep yourself entertained. Add salt to taste and mix again.
Transfer to a jar and close tightly. The texture is best for spreading at room temperature, but keep in the fridge if you're not going to consume it right away or if the weather is very warm.
they also said on teh same site:
There's no real recipe needed here. Just warm the nuts on a baking tray in a medium oven for about five minutes and then blitz in a food processor. Making this is one of those real kitchen alchemy moments; a noisy rubble for what seems like forever and then all of a sudden the oil is released from the nuts and you have a glorious creamy paste. Taste it now, so that you know how fantastic this is while it is still scented and slightly warm, but after that if you are anything like me you will have to hide it away somewhere so that you don’t scoff the lot.
This is a basic peanut butter recipe, but I am sure that you could add honey to it to make it honey peanut butter. Also, I'm sure if you used about the same amount of almonds and some maple syrup, you could make maple almond butter. NOTE: I did find a recipe for maple almond butter, but is made using a lot of butter with some maple syrup and nuts. If that interests you, let me know and I post it as well.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 c. unsalted roasted peanuts
- 1 tbsp. peanut oil
Directions:
For smooth peanut butter:
- Mix the peanuts with the peanut oil, and pour the mixture into the food processor.
- Process the mixture until it's very smooth.
- Store your smooth peanut butter in a sealed container in the fridge. It will be good for 2 weeks.
For chunky peanut butter:
- Take about 1/4 cup out of your 1 1/2 cups of peanuts and set them aside.
- Mix the rest of the peanuts with the oil, and pour the mixture into the food processor.
- Process the mixture until it's very smooth, then stir in the peanuts that you had set aside.
- Process a few seconds more to create the chunks in your chunky peanut butter.
- Store your chunky peanut butter in a sealed container in the fridge. It will be good for 2 weeks.
Serves: 12
Serving size: 2 tablespoons
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
116 calories
4.3 g protein
10.25 g fat
4 g carbohydrate
1.5 g fiber
0 mg cholesterol
1 mg sodium
10 mg calcium
0.4 mg iron
Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.
Wow, you all have inspired me to make my own nut butter when my current jar of peanut butter runs out. I guess I always figured it would require some arcane knowledge or some really complex process to do :)
I see homemade almond butter in my future...! I'm definitely tagging this.
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