Who doesn’t like a good nut butter? They are a good source of protein and easy last-minute snack. You can easily make your own with peanuts, almonds, walnuts, and cashews as an example and a food processor. Making your own nut butters assures you what you are truly eating. For peanuts, I prefer to use Valencia peanuts as they are a bit naturally sweeter. Runner peanuts are the ones used in most commercial peanut butter and most easily purchased.
- 1lb of nuts
- salt to taste, optional
- Place nuts into a food processor
- Turn on the food processor
- Watch and periodically turn off the food processor and scrape down the sides. Turn the food processor back on until the nuts become a creamy butter.
The nuts will go through a chopped-up stage, a crumbly stage and then, at last, will start smoothing out. It takes some time but patience pays off.
Store nut butters for a week or two in a cool place. Longer storage may require refrigeration to avoid the nuts turning rancid.