The thought of making homemade peanut butter never crossed my mind until Pinterest, but oh am I glad it did. I'm just glad we will never go back to buying peanut butter (whether all natural or original, crunchy or creamy, high fructose corn syrup or not, stir or non-stir, crunchy or creamy). This peanut butter was by far the best tasting peanut butter I've ever tried!
Here's what you need:
- peanuts (we got salted roasted peanuts in a shell and peeled them)
- a strong food processor
Sounds easy? Right, it is...well other than spending hours peeling peanuts and having them already half eaten between the three of us. We only peeled a few cups at a time, so this is just one batch we made.
Ready to begin? Our food processor is an attachment to our blender base we received when we were married. After finishing the first batch, I was happy I didn't use my little $10 chopper because it would have given out in a heartbeat.
Here are the stages I encountered in making this recipe:
- crushed peanuts
- fine powder (sand like)
- paste
- thick paste
- dough ball
- gritty peanut butter
- perfect peanut butter
Here is my peanut butter after 1 minute of processing.
Here we are 2 minutes in.
These two pictures are from 3 minutes into processing.
Not quite ready, but getting there!
4 minutes - almost there!
5 minutes and we are done! Look how creamy....mmmmmmmm!
I absolutely love this peanut butter. It is so much better than store bought. I have stored mine in the fridge just to keep it thicker and allow it to keep longer (I assume it will last as long as the nuts were originally good for, but as fast as we are eating it, I won't be able to tell you that personally!
On a side note, a friend of mine tried it and her peanut butter couldn't get past the balled up point (my guess is it depends on the strength of your chopper). She added melted coconut oil to it, and it blended well. Try it out and let me know how it goes!
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Original Recipe
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