Monday, January 14, 2008

Homemade Peanut Butter

This recipe came from Christmas Gifts of Good Taste published by Oxmoor House. I've been dying to make this. I've been trying to find peanut oil in a smaller bottle so I wouldn't have to buy the whole gallon (or more), but no luck. I broke down and bought the whole bottle. Either I'm going to have enough oil for a lifetime of homemade peanut butter or maybe I can fry a turkey with the remainder. Since there are no additives or preservatives, this has to be refrigerated. I thought this would bother me (I've never had cold peanut butter before), but I couldn't even really tell a difference. It's so creamy and yummy! Put it on your favorite cracker or on bread with some jelly.


Ingredients:
2 cups roasted, unsalted peanuts (I could only find the lightly salted roasted peanuts)
1 TBSP peanut oil
1/2 tsp salt (I omitted this since my peanuts were lightly salted)

Directions:
Process all ingredients in a food processor until well blended. Store in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 2 weeks. Yields about 1 and 1/4 cups butter.

2 comments:

Meg said...

I like your photos.....they make me hungry! Bring some of that abundance of peanut oil you have when you come home, and we'll try your recipe here.
Illu!

Faith said...

I make my own almond butter but I use olive oil. I might try that with peanuts and see if it works!