Homemade Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter is one of the richest sources of essential nutrients to our body.  In India, peanuts (verkadalai/varutha kadalai) is consumed in various forms in its traditional style as kadalai urundai, chikki, peanut rice, etc. etc.  or just plain peanuts, roasted or boiled.  I have not got to taste the commercially made peanut butter in all these years and never plan to henceforth too as my homemade peanut butter filled that gap and it is just yummy and loved very much by my daughter and me too.  With all the ingredients available readily at home any time, it is so easy and simple to make.

Ingredients:

Peanuts (unsalted) - 1-1/2 cups

Salt - a pinch

Sugar - 3/4 tsp

Honey - 2 tsp

Refined sunflower oil/Groundnut oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

First, dry roast and cool the peanuts.  Rub off the skin of the peanuts.  Grind all the ingredients to a smooth paste in a mixer to form the peanut butter.  Transfer this to a clean jar and use a clean spoon every time you spoon it out.  It can be used as spreads on bread slices/chappathis or as soft center fillings in homemade chocolates.  This is a totally preservative free homemade peanut butter.  

Note:

1.  Generally, roasted peanuts are available only as salted.  In that case, avoid the salt as per the ingredient list and add a little more sugar or honey if you are a sweet-toothed person.

2.  The peanut butter can either be a coarse and crunchy paste or a smooth and creamy paste.  It depends on how you like the peanut butter to be.  I made a smooth peanut butter.