How to make peanut butter (or peanut butter)
In recent years, peanut butter , which you will also know as peanut butter or peanut butter, has become very popular. It is a cream with an intense peanut flavor, since it is made only based on them, and that allows you to use it or accompany a wide variety of desserts and sweet recipes.
To this day, you can find peanut butter or cream in any large supermarket, in the area where you find cocoa cream and the like; but you can make it in the simplest way at home, knowing that you don't add other ingredients, controlling the quality of the raw material and with the satisfaction of making it at home.
In this post I tell you how to make peanut butter, I answer some common questions that arise when you are going to prepare it and I give you some tips that I hope will be most useful for you to prepare it, vary it to your liking and recipes to enjoy it.
How to make peanut butter
- Ingredients: about 250 gr of peeled and toasted peanuts
To make peanut butter you need roasted peanuts. Thus, you can buy peanuts already roasted and peeled, but it is better to buy them whole or peeled, and roast them yourself in the oven or pan just before making the cream.
How to roast peanuts before making butter?
To roast the peanuts, you have two options:- Toast the peanuts in the oven: Arrange the already peeled peanuts on an oven tray , and toast them at 170 - 180 ºC for about 10 minutes. Stir occasionally to ensure they don't burn.
- Toast the peanuts in a pan: Arrange the peanuts in a pan, put it on the heat and see, stirring constantly so they don't burn. Keep until toasted.
Peanut butter preparation:
- Put the shelled and toasted peanuts in a blender or food processor .
- Turn on the blender, and the cream will make itself: the peanut will release its own oil, which will help to emulsify and generate the cream that will be made by constantly grinding the peanuts. From time to time, you may need to stop to scrape the walls, but keep grinding until you get the desired texture.
- When you have the texture you are looking for, remove and store in an airtight container in the fridge.
Grades:
- Some people want to add a few more drops of oil to finish the emulsion to the desired taste. It is not necessary: if you wait for it to be crushed you will see how the oil released by the peanuts helps to create a paste, the peanut butter, but if you wish or to add more oil flavor to the cream, you can do it.
- In "Ingredients" we mentioned a minimum of 250 gr of peanuts. You can do it with the amount you want, but you need a minimum so that the machine takes the peanuts well to crush them (if there are too few it could be that the blades do not reach the peanuts correctly to crush them), and also to release the oil to emulsify.
- To make the cream we especially recommend the Magimix processor . Just clarify that with the Magimix CookExpert you can also make the cream, because with the accessories it incorporates it also becomes the Magimix processor, precisely, and it works great for it.
Magimix blender and Magimix food processor
How to make a different peanut butter: ways to vary the peanut butter
Peanut butter is one and it is unique: made from peanuts. But if you're looking for a slightly different way to enjoy peanut butter, you can do one of the following:
- Add other nuts: You can also shell walnuts, cashews or other nuts that you like and bake and crush them together with the peanuts. The process is exactly the same, and you will get a safe delicious nut butter. Try combinations and amounts to your liking (just keep in mind that some nuts leave less oil, and if they are in a significant proportion you may have to add a few drops of oil during the process, that's all).
- Add spices: you can add a touch of ginger, cinnamon or nutmeg to the peanut butter, you will see what an interesting flavor you get!
- Add honey or maple syrup: it will be a slightly stickier and sweeter cream, and you will add those special notes of wood or flowers from honey. Play at adding a good spoonful of your favorite honey or syrup to the peanut butter.
- Cocoa: you have to try the peanut with cocoa or carob powder. If you like the combination of that dried fruit with chocolate, you will like to add a tablespoon of cocoa or carob to the mix.
- Add a dollop of caramel cream – the caramel flavor you get in peanut butter is amazing.
- Coconut oil: the flavor of peanuts goes surprisingly well with coconut oil, you have to try it.
I hope you are encouraged to prepare peanut butter at home. In your own way and with your personalized flavor touches. If you start, you will see how easy and how rewarding it is.
Recipes with peanut butter
If you make peanut butter, you have a couple of recipes on our blog to enjoy with it. I invite you to see:
