How to make Peanut Butter? | Homemade Crunchy Peanut Butter

Okay, here are some facts - [1] Peanut butter is super simple to make at home [2] Homemade peanut butter is way healthier than the shop bought ones [3] You need just 3 basic ingredients - peanuts, oil and honey - to make your own peanut butter at home... and most importantly [4] Peanut butter tastes simply YUM! 

So aren't these reasons enough for you to hop right over to your kitchen and make your own batch of peanutty yumness?  :) 

Peanut butter is commonly available in two variations - creamy and crunchy. My personally favourite is the one with some crunch. Those crunchy little bits of peanuts hidden away in the creamy butter is just the way I like mine. I am sharing the crunchy version here. Just do away with the crunch part, if you like yours simple and creamy. Alrighty, I am not holding you back anymore... lets jump right into the recipe :)

Makes: 1 small bottle

Adapted from: Flavours

Ingredients:
Peanuts - 1 cup
Oil - 1 tbsp
Honey - 1 tbsp (as sweet as you like it)


Method:

• Dry roast the peanuts on a pan for a few minutes until they turn mildly brownish.
• Take off the stove and allow it to completely cool.

• If you like your peanut butter crunchy with a bits of peanuts in it, keep aside a little bit of roasted whole peanuts for adding in later. Transfer the remaining peanuts into a mixer and whizz for a few seconds until the peanuts are powdered.
• If you like your peanut butter smooth and creamy, weell, add in the entire lot into the mixer grinder and blend to a fine powder.
• Now add in oil and blend again. The texture of the mixture begins to thicken as the peanut butter takes shape.
• Add in honey and blend again. The peanut butter begins to thicken as the oil form the peanuts also begin to ooze out.
  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  
• Now, transfer the peanut butter onto a bowl.
• In a mortar, crush the few peanuts that you had kept aside .
• Toss these into the bowl and mix well into the butter.
  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  
• Your crunchy peanut butter is ready to be yummed up! :)

Notes:

• The quantity of oil required is purely dependent on the variety of peanuts being used. 
• The addition of honey is optional. If you do not want it sweet, you can do away with the honey. 
• Adding honey thickens the mixture a little. If more honey is added, you may need to add in more oil too.
• Store it in an air-tight container and refrigerate. It lasts for a few weeks (provided you manage to keep your hands off the jar the day you made them! :) )

We enjoyed it with simple homemade whole wheat bread... ah bliss! :) Recipe for basic whole wheat bread coming soon, stay tuned! :)