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Monday, November 19, 2012

How To Make Homemade Peanut Butter: In 5 Minutes Yo!

Hello kind folks. I shall bore you not with much ranting this time. Because this post is so important that anything else said about anything else is just totally random BS. This is a post on how to make peanut butter at home. In five minutes.


In 5 minutes.

5 mins.

*Gulp*

I kid you not. Make this. And stop buying that crap in expensive plastic bottles that costs you your right arm. And feeds some foreign economy and introduces weird stuff into your blood stream. Or whatever other streams you are housing in your body right now.

I am ranting. I should stop. I have stopped.


Name: Homemade Peanut Butter
Prep Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: Wazzat?!
Recipe Source: Do not ask!
Serves: Multiple servings

You need:
100gms of unsalted, plain roasted peanuts. (You get these for 49 bucks in the market. If you like your peanut butter to have some flavour, go on, buy honey roasted or whatever ti is that you prefer. But I ask you to not buy the salted variety coz then, you cannot control the amount of salt in the peanut butter. And trust me you, most salted peanut packets ahve way too much salt)
A dash of saindha namak or rock salt
A blender




- Dunk the peanuts into a blender that is very, very dry. Pulse until you get a fine powder. Open lid, scrape the peanuts from the side and pulse again. Keep pulsing. Add a dash of salt and continue to pulse. The blender usually gets very hot so take breaks if you want. The heat will make the peanuts all melty, which is okay.

- Add nothing else - the natural oils from the peanut will ooze out to make the peanut butter viscous. That alone is enough. Adding oil separately usually makes the peanuts separate from the oil and the thick stuff sinks, the oil floats and the two never marry each other after this divorce. It's a mess. That will not happen with this because we are allowing the natural peanut oils to do the job for us. Pulse until you have a chunky if you like it or a smooth if you like it consistency.

- Allow it to cool and then transfer to a dry, air tight container. Refrigerate. This will keep for close to two weeks in the fridge but it has never lasted beyond a week in mine. It's too yummy and tastes like heaven. Eat this and you will never go back to store-bought peanut butter.

- This peanut butter is more spreadable than store-bought and we prefer that consistency. Refrigeration will make it slightly thicker. That's all folks! MAKE THIS NOW!

4 comments:

  1. Dhaasu. Must make as soon as I'm home

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  2. found this link on Mumbai Food Bloggers group.. I love the recipe.. I'm one of those cheap people who hate to spend extra bucks to buy peanut butter! :P :D I'm gonna love making this! I can already see these give me amazing PB&J Cookies!

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  3. Go for it Fio and Aditya! RK, tell how your PB&J Cookies turn out :D

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