Homemade Peanut Butter

Cooking time: 5 minutes | Difficulty level: Easy

Brent loves peanut butter. So much that for 6 straight months, he ate PB&J sandwiches every workday for lunch before I came along and changed his life ;) We typically used to run out of a 16oz jar of Jif in a month, so I thought why not try to make it at home? I like making variations (see ideas in Helpful Hints section at the end of the recipe) and I get a kick out of making stuff at home. I can control the quality of ingredients used while avoiding all those unnecessary chemicals and preservatives and it takes barely 5 minutes to make! Hope you like this recipe. If you try any variations, do let me know in the comments section. Enjoy!

Homemade Peanut Butter

Ingredients
2 cups roasted peanuts, shelled
1/2 tsp salt if the peanuts are not salted
1-2 tsp cooking oil, peanut oil preferred
sugar or sugar syrup to taste



Method

1. Add peanuts and salt to the food processor and run till peanuts are all crushed / powdered.
2. Add sugar or sugar syrup and run blender for about 10 seconds to make sure it completely mixes in.
3. Add oil little-by-little, running the blender each time till desired consistency is achieved.
4. To make crunchy peanut butter, stop grinding peanuts when you see chunks within the PB. For creamier PB, run the blender longer and add a little more oil.
5. Once the peanut butter reaches expected taste and texture, remove from blender and store in a tight lidded jar to preserve taste for a long time and avoid it from going rancid.

Helpful tips:

• You can make variations by adding garlic powder, paprika, crushed black pepper, honey etc.
• Your peanut butter will release oil after a few days which will typically collect on the top. This is normal. Scoop it out with a spoon and you can use it in cooking.