Homemade Peanut Butter in Minutes

Homemade Peanut Butter and Tasty Peanut Butter Recipes

Here are two high protein, high energy, and high fibre recipes. Read on to learn how to make healthy, creamy homemade peanut butter in minutes, in 3 minutes to be exact. And as a bonus, I have a delicious peanut butter sandwich and high protein peanut butter and oatmeal laddu recipes for you as well.

Unlike many available commercial brands of peanut butter, this homemade version of peanut butter is not overloaded with added ingredients and though equally creamy and delicious, is much, much healthier.

If you’ve wondered why peanut butter is classified as a healthy food, you just have to consider the nutritional benefits of peanuts. These are rich in protein, fibre, healthy fats, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants as well.

Follow my recipe and you could make lip-smacking good peanut butter at home in minutes and at a much lower cost. And do check out the quick high protein laddu recipe and learn to prepare peanut butter oatmeal laddus as a healthy snack you could enjoy whenever you feel hungry. But let me warn you, these tasty energy bites could soon become a favourite.

And if you’re interested in some more healthy oat recipes here are two more for you. Do check out the recipe for crunchy raisin and oat cookies, and soft and tasty instant oats dosas and uttapams.

Ingredients

Peanut Butter

1 cup (150g) roasted peanuts

¼ tsp salt

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp oil

(Makes approx. ½ cup peanut butter)

High Protein Laddus

1 cup oats (quick-cooking or rolled)

½ cup peanut butter

¼ cup + 3 tbsp grated jaggery

¼ cup almonds

2 tbsp raisins

2 tsp pure ghee

(Makes 12 laddus)

Procedure

Peanut Butter

1. Grind the roasted peanuts in a mixer-grinder after transferring them to your grinder jar. Start by grinding in short bursts of around 5-10 seconds for a total of around 30 seconds. The mix will now be slightly sticky because the peanuts have just started releasing their oil.
2. Add the salt and honey. Give the coarsely ground peanuts a stir and continue grinding on low speed for another minute stopping every 15 seconds to let the heated grinder jar lose some of its heat.
3. Add the oil and resume the grinding, stopping every 15 seconds like before to avoid overheating your equipment due to the dry grinding. After 30 seconds, increase the speed to medium and grind the peanuts till you get a smooth, creamy spread.
4. If you want to make crunchy peanut butter, then at this stage stir in about 2 tbsp of roughly grated peanuts into it.
5. Transfer the peanut butter to an airtight glass jar. It will stay good at room temperature for around a week and in the fridge for over a month.

Enjoy!

High protein laddus

1. Dry roast the oats on medium heat for around 5 minutes or till they change colour slightly.
2. Then dry roast the almonds for around 3 to 4 minutes. After they’ve cooled to room temperature, roughly chop them.
3. In a microwave safe bowl, roughly mix the peanut butter and jaggery and microwave this mix for 30 seconds. That is, only till the jaggery just starts melting. (In place of jaggery, you could use brown sugar or approximately ¼ cup of honey or maple syrup. If you use honey or maple syrup, just mix it well with the peanut butter. There’ll be no need to microwave this mix.)
4. Stir the microwaved mix and then add in the chopped almonds and the raisins.
5. Next, stir in the oats and 1 tsp of pure ghee. Switch to mixing everything with your hands. Add in 1 more tsp of ghee. (Add more ghee if the mix is still too dry.)
6. Lightly grease your palms and shape portions of the mix into laddus, each the size of a small walnut.

Enjoy!