Cookbook:Homemade Peanut Butter

Homemade Peanut Butter
Category	Peanut recipes
Yield	1½ cup
Difficulty

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Peanut butter is a food product usually consisting of roasted and ground peanuts, sometimes sweetened. It is commonly sold in grocery stores, but can be made at home. Many styles are available; the most popular are creamy (smooth) and crunchy, but honey-roasted or wholenut varieties can also be found. Creamy peanut butter is made by grinding all of the mixture very finely. The crunchier styles leave portions of the mixture with a coarser grind, resulting in larger pieces of peanut interspersed with the creamier fine ground mixture.

Used in sandwiches (particularly the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich), candy (for example, Reese's Pieces), and pastry, it is a good source of protein, and is popular with children. For people with nut allergies, the intense concentration of nuts in peanut butter can cause fatal anaphylactic shock. Peanut butter is often contaminated with aflatoxin.

Ingredients

• 2 cups (250 g) raw shelled peanuts
• 1 tablespoons any natural oil, such as vegetable oil, peanut oil or canola oil (optional)
• ½ teaspoon white sugar (optional)
• 2 teaspoons honey (optional)
• 1 pinch of salt

Procedure

1. Place tinfoil on a baking pan, add in peanuts and bake the peanuts at 200–350 °F for about 10 minutes.
2. Let peanuts cool. You can shake the peanuts to peel its skin.
3. Process or blend for a while. Blend to a desired consistency. This will take around 10 minutes.
   • At first, it will be crumbly, but as you blend it comes together into a ball, and eventually it will turn smooth and creamy.
4. If desired, add in oil, sugar, honey and salt. Process or blend until combined.

Notes, tips and variations

• You can do this using a pestle and mortar, but it takes much longer.
• Don't worry about adding oils! Keep blending to release more oil from peanuts.