Peanut Butter Spiced-Up
Peanut Butter made from scratch, spiced up with cinnamon, turmeric and chilli for extra taste and tang. Healthy and so utterly more-ish! 8 minutes from start to finish for your favourite healthy go-to morning brown toast or travel snack.
Servings: 25
Ingredients
- 1 Food Processor
- 500 grams Peanuts of which at least 250 grams unsalted
- 1 teaspoon Chilli powder optional
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon optional
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric optional
Instructions
Prepare
- Take out your Food Processor and install with the biggest blade.
- Roast your peanuts in a preheated oven (200 Celcius) if you prefer to add the spices. In this case sprinkle your Cinnamon, Turmeric and Chilli powder over the peanuts and cook until golden (ca 3 min).
Peanut Butter Processing
- Add 400 grams Peanuts (with spices or not - you decide) to your food processor and clamp on the lid. You will reserve 100 grams if you prefer crunchy - see below.
- Set your processor to the manual setting half way (mine goes from 0 - 10 = setting 5)
- Let the food processor do its job, as the peanuts will break down from ground 'flour' to finally release its fats. This takes approx 4 minutes. Continue for another 3 min.
- At this stage - push stop and push down the smooth peanut butter along the sides. If you like smooth peanut butter stop here - OR -
- Add the 100 grams of reserved peanuts to make crunchy peanut butter- and set the food processor to pulse for max 3 - 5 seconds.
- Ready!
- Scrape your peanut butter into jars and refrigerate.
- TIP: Take out an apple, slice it and scrape the sides of the food processor - Eat! :) Yum!
Notes
This peanut butter recipe can be varied indefinitely, and if you like it sweeter simply add honey and / or raisins to the almost finished batch and pulse it in. You can of course add your own other favourite spices too - the above is my current ultimate go-to version. Enjoy!
Adapted from The Brown Eyed Baker