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Homemade Peanut Butter

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Peanut butter is a food product usually consisting of roasted and ground peanuts, sometimes sweetened. It is commonly sold in grocery stores, but can be made at home. Many styles are available; the most popular are creamy (smooth) and crunchy, but honey-roasted or wholenut varieties can also be found. Creamy peanut butter is made by grinding all of the mixture very finely. The crunchier styles leave portions of the mixture with a coarser grind, resulting in larger pieces of peanut interspersed with the creamier fine ground mixture.

Yield 1½ cup

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (250 g) raw shelled peanuts
  • 1 tablespoons any natural oil, such as vegetable oil, peanut oil or canola oil (optional) (optional)
  • ½ teaspoon white sugar (optional) (optional)
  • 2 teaspoons honey (optional) (optional)
  • 1 pinch of salt

Instructions

  1. 1
    Place tinfoil on a baking pan, add in peanuts and bake the peanuts at 200–350 °F for about 10 minutes.
  2. 2
    Let peanuts cool. You can shake the peanuts to peel its skin.
  3. 3
    Process or blend for a while. Blend to a desired consistency. This will take around 10 minutes.
  4. 4
    — At first, it will be crumbly, but as you blend it comes together into a ball, and eventually it will turn smooth and creamy.
  5. 5
    If desired, add in oil, sugar, honey and salt. Process or blend until combined.

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Homemade_Peanut_Butter