Homemade Peanut butter!

My Saturday success story… Finally made my own peanut butter…

As someone who consumes at least 300g of peanut butter per week, I keep buying jars of them from the grocery store every month… Peanut butter is a healthy choice they say… but, how healthy is stuff you buy from the market? Most of them are adulterated. There is no doubt about that!

So, considering all the above, I always wanted to make it at home… And last weekend, with nothing on my calendar, I got myself the ingredients and got to work… The result: Most delicious peanut butter I ever tasted in my life… and it did not taste anything like the ones I was buying all these years! This made me wonder… what kinds of stuff are they putting in those?!

Anyway, here you go… the recipe for a healthy breakfast…

Ingredients:

• Peanuts (shelled) – 2 cups
• Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
• Peanut oil – 2 teaspoon
• Honey – 3 teaspoon
• Cinnamon powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees C. Spread the peanuts in the baking tray and lightly toast them (at 180 degrees C) until they are slightly golden and glossy with oil. I have a burned a couple of them in the process and it added to the flavour.

Transfer the peanuts to a food processor or mixer (when they are still warm). Run the food processor for a for a minute. Stop and scrape down the sides of the food processor and continue running it. The mix will be powdery at first and with more time in the processor, it will start becoming smooth and buttery. Remember, peanuts are sources of oil.

When the butter is reasonably smooth, add salt, peanut oil, honey (or any other sweeteners) and cinnamon powder. Continue running the food processor until the butter is smooth to your satisfaction.

Transfer the peanut butter to a storage container and here you have your homemade peanut butter.