Hello everybody!

Today I have for you my all time favourite snack recipe…. the PEANUT BUTTER.  And when I say my favourite it means I really love it. I could eat peanut butter with almost everything…simply just with a spoon, with fruits, in shakes, with oatmeal, with frozen yoghurt or ricotta, on pancakes and so on 🙂

Unfortunately the peanut butter in the supermarkets is loaded with sugars, sweeteners, salt, hydrogenated vegetable oils, mono and diglycerides, maltodextrin, corn syrup and so on. So that kind of peanut butter can’t be called healthy for sure, it’s actually a caloric bomb!

The good news is that making home-made peanut butter is incredibly easy and takes less than 15 minutes.

Let’s see what you will need: 250- 300 gr of dry roasted peanuts and a power blender. That’s it yes! 🙂

Directions

1. Throw the peanuts in your food processor
2. Start running the processor and then just let it do its thing
3. After 4-5 minutes  the nuts are much more finely ground, and they’re starting to stick to the outside of the blender
4. Stop your food processor and scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl
5. After another 3-4 minutes the butter will start clumping together. It’s not quite peanut butter, but it’s getting there!
6. Continue processing the butter for 2-3 minutes more, until it becomes completely smooth.
7. Transfer the peanut butter to storage container, and that’s it, the peanut butter can be used immediately.

Here are some variations if you want your peanut butter a little different:

• Honey:  add 2 tablespoons of honey in to the finished peanut butter
• Cinnamon-Raisin: add ½ cup raisins + 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon + 2 tablespoons of honey into the finished peanut butter
• Crunchy: Pulse 1 cup of peanuts into the finished peanut butter for a crunchier texture.

Try it out! Enjoy! :*