Peanut Butter Recipe – Cookie and Kate

Peanut butter lovers: Have you ever tried making your personal? I don’t know what took me so lengthy to strive it. It’s really easy to mix in a meals processor and tastes unimaginable. Take your PB&J to the subsequent 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’ve full management over the substances. There’s no want for sugar in the event you desire unsweetened peanut butter (although in the event you get pleasure from slightly sweetness, I’ve choices under). 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 fascinated by making your personal peanut butter, this recipe is for you! You’ll discover ideas, variations, and the total recipe under—plus a video so you’ll be able to watch it come collectively.

Selfmade Peanut Butter Ideas

Peanut butter on toast has been a breakfast mainstay for way back to I can keep 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.

Usually, for nut butters, I begin with uncooked nuts and roast them earlier than mixing. Nonetheless, it’s been tough to seek 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’ll be able to management the salt stage. Double-check the substances earlier than shopping for (the one ingredient must 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 crew Meals Processor for nut butters, peanut butter included. Nut butters are so thick that blenders, even nice ones like my Vitamix, require lots 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 completely happy to report that peanut butter blends rather more simply than my different nut butter recipes. When you make peanut butter, you’ll wish to strive the remaining!

Watch The right way to Make Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter Taste Variations

Strive only one or strive 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 also be incredible. With do-it-yourself peanut butter, you’ve 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 gentle 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 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.

Blended nut butter

Substitute almonds, cashews, pecans, walnuts or pistachios for a few of the peanuts.

Peanut Butter Serving Recommendations

I really like peanut butter for breakfast. It’s exhausting to beat peanut butter on toast! To take it to the subsequent stage, drizzle it with honey. Stir a dollop of peanut butter into your morning oats to make them extra hearty—strive 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. It’s also possible to 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 are able to’t overlook the traditional peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which is a daily 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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