Selfmade Almond Butter (Simply Almonds)

Learn the way straightforward it’s to make selfmade almond butter with simply 1 ingredient: almonds (and a contact of oil relying in your meals processor!). It’s easy, nutritious, and tastes so significantly better than retailer purchased!

I initially revealed this tutorial in 2013 and have since added new pictures and extra useful success suggestions.

Have you ever ever tried making selfmade nut butter? It’s wildly easy, and also you begin with simply 2 objects: nuts and a dependable meals processor.

I often whip up almond butter, and it’s a staple in our home. We undergo it shortly as a result of not solely is it extremely flavorful, it’s tremendous versatile. Use it as a dip for apple or pear slices, unfold it on toast with jam or honey, mix it right into a smoothie, or my favourite: on a spoon with mini chocolate chips on high. 😉

The choices most actually don’t cease there. Selfmade almond butter is unbelievable on high of wholesome banana pancakes, or utilized in recipes like flourless almond butter cookies, breakfast cookies, almond butter sparkle cookies, and wholesome berry streusel bars.

Finest Sorts of Almonds to Use

Entire almonds are finest. I like to recommend roasted, frivolously salted almonds for the optimum taste. You should use the sliced or slivered varieties, however I discover they’re drier and also you want a little bit of oil to get issues shifting.

I’m not affiliated with this model, however I usually use Blue Diamond frivolously salted almonds. They’re straightforward to seek out, mix properly, and have unbelievable taste.

If utilizing uncooked almonds, unfold them out in a single layer on a baking sheet (no have to line it), and toast them in a 350°F (177°C) oven for 10 minutes. Let cool for a couple of minutes earlier than processing—it’s OK in the event that they’re nonetheless a bit heat!

Finest Meals Processor to Use

A reliable, high-quality meals processor is a must have for making selfmade almond butter. It’s a necessary device that simplifies numerous recipes, together with selfmade biscuits and scones, selfmade pesto and different sauces, crumb crusts like Oreo cookie crust and graham cracker crust, and treats like rum balls and Oreo balls.

A meals processor with a 750+ watt motor is finest for making almond butter. Right here’s what I exploit and different choices:

How one can Make Selfmade Almond Butter

You simply want 1 ingredient and, if wanted to assist alongside your meals processor, a teaspoon or 2 of a neutral-tasting oil, resembling avocado oil. Or in the event you don’t thoughts the flavour, you need to use gentle olive oil or melted coconut oil.

Making selfmade almond butter takes round 10–quarter-hour, relying in your meals processor/blender’s energy. Be affected person with it!

At first it’s going to look gritty and crumbly, like this:

Then it’s going to get somewhat chunkier and climb up the edges because it processes. Give it a stir and scrape down the edges:

It’s going to start to clump collectively because the nuts launch their oils:

Proceed to mix till clean:

There isn’t any further oil or every other ingredient in there! Simply almonds.

Can I Add Taste?

One profit of creating your individual almond butter is the choice to taste it. After the almond butter has been processed, be happy so as to add somewhat cinnamon, honey or maple syrup, and/or vanilla extract.

Or strive my recipe for:

Is selfmade almond butter cheaper than store-bought? That basically relies upon.

Some store-bought almond butter is $6/jar and a few is $12/jar—it relies on the shop and the manufacturers/varieties they promote. Similar goes for purchasing complete almonds. Whilst you might save a number of {dollars} by making your individual almond butter, the true profit of creating almond butter at house is the contemporary style!

Almond Butter Success Suggestions

• Each couple of minutes, cease and scrape down the edges of your meals processor to assist issues transfer alongside and provides the motor a break.
• Have endurance… turning almonds into almond butter takes as much as quarter-hour or longer relying in your meals processor.
• As soon as it’s achieved and also you switch it to a jar, let it cool for 1 hour uncovered, so steam doesn’t get trapped within the jar.

Now the enjoyable half: Discovering all of the methods to take pleasure in it!

How one can Use Selfmade Almond Butter

• Unfold on toast (like sandwich bread, complete wheat bread, or multigrain bread)
• Unfold on seeded oat bread
• As a dip for apple and pear slices, banana, and carrots or celery
• Unfold on banana bread
• With zucchini bread or zucchini muffins
• Stirred into oatmeal, yogurt, or cottage cheese
• Unfold on pancakes or waffles, like these wholesome banana pancakes or fluffy whole-wheat waffles
• In baking recipes, resembling almond butter cookies, banana breakfast cookies, flourless almond butter chocolate chip cookies, and blueberry almond energy muffins
• Blended in smoothies
• Exchange the peanut butter in peanut butter path combine bars or no-bake chocolate oat fudge bars
• Exchange the peanut butter in peanut rooster zucchini noodles or different savory peanut sauces