Crunchy or Smooth Peanut Butter
Make on Fresco
Truly delicious homemade peanut butter is hard to beat. Pass the apples, the celery or just a spoon will do...great with chocolate of course!
I do love a good peanut butter...you may notice that it does appear in a few recipes here and there. I tend not to eat it often as once I begin I find it hard to quit. This recipe appeared first in the Pimp my Pantry calendar, still available HERE. It is about to appear in my next project, shall I tell you the name? (Naaah, gotta wait for social media to do it’s thing!!) In the meantime, enjoy this little sneaky preview of what’s to come!!
Need
- 500 Grams roasted peanuts
- 75 Grams golden caster sugar
- 2 Teaspoons pink salt flakes BUY
Do
- 1
Place all the nuts onto a baking paper lined tray and into a cold oven set to 200°C. Roast for 10 minutes. I know they are already roasted, this extraroasting gives you the lovely colour and depth of flavour we are looking for intraditional peanut butter.
- 2
Meanwhile, create a sugar praline by placing the sugar into a dry frying panand onto a medium heat. Do not stir. Shake the sugar occasionally and thenas it starts to melt, a little more frequently so that the sugar melts equally.When it is all melted it should be a beautiful amber colour.
- 3
Scrape the melted sugar onto a Silpat mat. Let it set. It will not take more thana few seconds. Break it into pieces.
- 4
Place 400g of the hot peanuts into Thermomix bowl with sugar praline and salt. Blend 30 sec/speed 8. Scrape down sides of bowl and lid.
- 5
Blend 30 sec/speed 7. Remove any peanut butter from the bowl that youwould like to have as smooth peanut butter.
- 6
Add remaining peanuts and blend 6 sec/speed 6. This is your crunchy peanut butter.
- 7
Store in airtight containers in the pantry.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
