The following is a guest post from Surviving The Stores contributor Sarah Falk.
I love making homemade peanut butter. It’s fast, easy, and DELICIOUS. My son thinks I should make peanut butter and sell it in the store. It’s nice to make something they actually like eating.
You, too, can make your own homemade peanut butter and share in the adoration of your children.
You’ll need
* a food processor, Blendtec, Vitamix, or something similar
* peanuts. (I get the honey roasted ones from Whole Foods)
Directions:
1. Dump your peanuts into your Blendtec (or whatever machine you’re using). I used about 20 ounces of peanuts. You’ll want to make at least 16 ounces of peanuts at a time. Less than that is difficult to blend.
2. Blend away!
3. Keep blending and raise your blender speed. Watch your peanut butter once it gets around this stage. You can pick the exact amount of creamy/crunchy ratio that you’d like. I like really creamy.
Cleaning could actually be the toughest part of this peanut butter-making gig. I almost gave up on homemade peanut butter just because I didn’t want to clean the jar. (Pathetic and lazy, I know) But, no worries, I’m going to show you a trick that kept my homemade-peanut butter-making on track .
Fill your blender container with soap and water and turn it on.
After 45 seconds or so, dump out your water and wipe down your container with a rag to remove any chunks.
Turn on your blender and do a little more rinsing, then dump and rinse. All done!
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have you tried this with almonds. I am crazy for almond butter on apples! It’s very spendy so i’d like to do my own if possible.
Haha, not lazy at all. I would dread clean up too! I’m pinning this. Thanks!
Peanut butter cleanup is easy. Put a tsp or so of baking soda in the jar and add hot water. No soap! Let it soak about 10 mins. Anything oil-based comes right off. I use this on mac n’cheese pots too!
Thanks for sharing this. How long is homemade peanut butter good for after you make it?
Do you store it in the fridge or can you store it in the cabinet like store bought PB?
I was told to keep it in the fridge for up to 6 weeks .
Is it really this easy? Wow!
Can you use regular raw peanuts, or must they be roasted?
And how long Will it keep good? 6 weeks in the fridge as someone else wrote?
Have a Nice day 🙂
we tried this with plain, unsalted peanuts, and it 1) was super chunky and literally unspreadable (we were pulling it out of the jar in chunks to eat) and 2) didnt really taste that good, just tasted like a “peanut paste” with the “harsh”(?) taste of plain peanuts so i wouldnt recommend using plain peanuts
Maybe you didn’t blend it completely? I had the same experience. I used honey roasted though. But I began to blend and it was really just chucnks. But I kept blending to find out if it would turn out any different and it began to cather in a ball and finally smooth out.
I tried this right away! Told my dad that I just had to try it. He insisted that it needed something more than just the peanuts but I told him that it didn’t say anything. He didn’t believe me! But, when I started the food processor and began blending, I was a bit diaapointed. It was all crumbly! I thought a moment and kept blending it, despite my father saying that it wouldn’t work and BOOM! It became the most delicious peanut butter I’ve ever had!! I made it so it wasn’t really crunchy like the store bought but wasn’t totally creamy either. It had a gritty taste to it but not in a bad way! It was actually really good! I am eating it by the spoonful!
I’ve been making my own peanut butter for a couple of years. I always use my food processor. I have tried different nuts some are better than others. Most of them I also add peanuts. Peanuts have a higher fat content and make a smoother moist butter. If you use just nuts which are lower in fat you add a tiny bit of oil…TINY…1/4-1/2 teaspoon. I have used too much and you could pour it out of the processor eek! Keep processing your peanut butter until it is smooth. It will seem thick and dry and then all of a sudden it gets smooth. I think its easier than a blender. You can stop and leave it crunchy if you want. It is good with honey roasted but also with plain. Plain has less sugar. Also I use reduced salt peanuts.. I don’t care for unsalted but you can choose those if you have to watch your salt intake.
I have never refrigerated mine. IMO I think if I don’t keep my nuts cold I don’t have to keep my peanut butter cold. Homemade peanut butter is really good!