Home-made Peanut Butter

Making peanut butter at home is really the easiest thing to do. Plus you can avoid all the preservatives and whatever else they add into the store bought ones. The other advantage of making it at home is the different flavours we can experiment with. Make it sweet by adding some sugar or make it spicy by adding cayenne pepper and red chilli flakes or anything else in between.

Home-made Peanut Butter

Servings: 1 1/2  cups of peanut butter
Prep Time: 2 mins if you have roasted peanuts or 20 mins if not Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients 

2 cups roasted Peanuts

Instructions 

1. In an electric mixer or food processor put in the roasted peanuts and grind. 
2. The peanuts first  turn into powder and then it becomes crumbly. 
3. Continue to grind and with the oil oozing out of the peanuts, it turns into a saucy texture.
4. Make it crunchy or smooth by varying the grind times. 

How to Roast peanuts at home

1. Heat a heavy bottomed vessel and put in 2 cups of regular peanuts in it. 
2. Keep stirring on low-medium heat till the peanuts turn evenly brown. 10 -15 minutes
3. Cool the roasted peanuts and then proceed to remove the skin.
4. To remove the skin - Place the roasted peanuts in  a wide plate and crush peanuts with hand. This will break the peanuts and separate the skin. 
5. Alternatively place the roasted peanuts on a flat surface and run a rolling pin on them. This will break the peanuts and separate the skin
6. Lightly blow on the crushed peanuts to blow the flaky skin away.