Rex Trulove
If you’ve looked at the price of peanut butter in the store lately, you’ve probably noticed that it is quite expensive for what you get. You might be astounded at how incredibly easy and simple it is to make your own peanut butter. It is also considerably cheaper.
The secret, which is really no secret at all, is that peanuts contain a lot of peanut oil. Even when peanuts are roasted or dried, they still contain a great deal of oil. It is the oil that makes peanut butter creamy.
To make peanut butter, simply put shelled peanuts into a blender and run the blender. At first, the peanuts simply chunk up, and the chunks get progressively smaller. Don’t despair. Soon, the chunks start looking like a fine meal. Don’t stop blending yet.
It doesn’t take much longer before the ‘meal’ suddenly starts looking different as the peanut oil is finally released. It takes on a creamy consistency. You have control over how creamy you want it to be. At this point, it is peanut butter.
If you want chunky style peanut butter, simply make it in two stages. In the first stage, blend some peanuts until they are as chunked up as you want them. Pour these into a container and blend more peanuts for peanut butter. When the peanut butter is done, add in the peanut chunks and blend just long enough to mix them into the peanut butter.
All told, it takes under five minutes to make peanut butter. It is simple to make because there is only one ingredient. It is also cheap because peanuts usually don’t cost very much. Also, because the only ingredient is peanuts, no amounts have been given here. You can make as much or as little as you want. The more peanuts you use, the longer it takes to make the peanut butter, but the difficulty doesn’t increase since the blender is doing all the work.
Did you realize that making homemade peanut butter could be this simple?
I have never made it but I know others who have. Sounds very easy.
It really is. It is far easier than most people think.
In my country they roast the peanuts, then blend, add coconut oil, a little honey. Oh, it is good! And because I have a chocolate addiction… I buy something called Umiah… which is chocolate jelly and mix it… chocolate peanut butter. It is so good, it is probably illegal.
Oh man I bet the honey is good in the peanut butter, yum!
It is just a little honey… oh it is so good and it is all natural. They have a factory here and the product is called ‘Stir it Up’ (from a Bob Marley song)
Coconut oil isn’t needed since peanuts have plenty of oil. I do like the mixture of peanut butter and honey, though. I am also extremely fond of chocolate and peanut butter. In the US, we have what is called Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which is peanut butter completely coated with chocolate. The guy who came up with them originally worked for Milton Hershey, who is the biggest chocolate maker in the US. Hershey was also a humanitarian and founded a school and a hospital…in the town he founded; Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Prob. when we roast the nuts a lot of the oil is gone, so we add coconut oil. I have tasked those woderful peanut butter cups… and we used to get Skippy peanut butter which made a chocolate peanut butter that was very good. We get some Hersheys here.. small amount as we grow our own chocolate beans and they are 1st class. Some people buy the raw chocolate and make chocolate tea.
This looks simple and easy. I want to make almond butter as well.
Almonds are even more versatile. It is simple to make almond flour, almond meal, almond milk, and almond butter. Almonds are more expensive, though, unless a person has access to an almond tree.
A nice and simple option to never run out of peanut butter!
That is true, as long as you have peanuts on hand.
You really are the master, there is no doubt.
LOL…I just like saving money when I can and have the opinion that homemade is always better than storebought, regardless of the product.
True that! I’ve come to a point in my life when I can’t stand too much-processed foods so this recipe/way to make peanut butter is just great!