It’s so much easier than you think! With just 4 ingredients you can make your own Peanut Butter From Scratch at home!
Is there anything more satisfying than that moment when you make your own condiment? That thing that you’ve been buying in a jar or a tub for your whole life and then *boom* you make it yourself! The power! The excitement! That’s exactly how I felt the first time we made this Peanut Butter From Scratch!
Even better, it’s incredibly easy to make and the ingredients are super simple.
Ingredients Needed:
- Peanuts (raw and skinned)
- Honey
- Salt
- Peanut oil
Make sure your peanuts are totally raw, without their skins, and salt free. You can usually find them in the bulk section of your grocery store.
How to make Peanut Butter From Scratch:
- Pan (or wok) fry peanuts in peanut oil
- Let them cool completely
- Once cooled, add everything to a food processor and blend away until it’s smooth!
Tips:
- Be sure that you watch your peanuts when you’re frying them. You want to slowly stir them the whole time your frying on high to avoid this. Once the heat is turned down, you can stir a couple of times a minute.
- Make sure they cool completely! Definitely give it the full 20 minutes.
- Scrape down the edges of the food processor to make sure it’s all incorporated.
- Adjust to your taste! If you like your peanut butter sweeter, add more honey. If you like your peanut butter saltier, add more salt!
Why buy store bought when you can have this creamy dreamy peanut butter at home?
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Ingredients
- 1 lb of raw skinned peanuts
- 1 tablespoon of peanut oil
- 3 tablespoons of honey
- 1 tablespoon of kosher salt
Instructions
- Heat peanut oil in wok or large frying pan on medium to high heat. When the oil starts to simmer add the peanuts and cook for one minute stirring constantly. Then turn the heat down to medium and then fry to another 7-10 minutes until they are a deep golden brown.
- On a pan lined with paper towels, cool the peanuts completely, at least 20 minutes.
- Once they are cooled put the peanuts in a food processor, add honey and salt, and blend until creamy, 5 minutes, remembering to scrape down the sides.
- Store in an airtight container.
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Oh no!! Thank you so much for letting me know, Peggy! I’m looking into it right now!
Yum!! Alton Brown is a rock star 🙂 Your peanut butter looks delicious!!
I’ve been so curious to see if this actually works. Thanks for sharing! I think I’m going to have to attempt this now. I don’t really like peanut butter, but homemade is always better right?
My, oh my, Tracy…my list of things to try from you just keeps growing! I bet you’ll never go back to jarred PB again…this looks fabulous!
the texture looks great. it does look like a perfect pb!
Thank you! 🙂
Your Peanut Butter looks so yummy 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
Alton Brown is my hero. Your peanut butter looks so good. I’ve never wanted to make my own before, but now you’ve gone and changed my mind. 😀
Haha mine too!! Thank you! This is definitely a great recipe to try for your first one to make you a believer! 😉
Wow now that is some awesome sounding peanut butter! I once made peanut butter with plain unroasted peanuts and it was pretty meh. Will have to try this exciting-looking method sometime! 🙂
Thank you!!! It’s the frying and the honey which makes it super flavorful! I hope you do try it- you wont be disappointed! 🙂
This looks so so delicious!! I love making but butters from scratch, but my processor usually isn’t up to the job, might have to give it another go though!
We love Alton Brown too. I have been making peanut butter for a little while now but do it the easy way to throwing already roasted peanuts in the food processor. Mine is a bit runnier, maybe it is time I finally try this recipe!
He’s hard not to love! This one is definitely thick and creamy and super flavorful because of the frying and the honey 🙂
Dang, this PB looks sooo good! I usually buy the organic Santa Cruz blend we have available around here, but I would love to make my own now. Alton Brown is a genius.
Thank you!! It is soooo good, which of course it would be since it’s from Alton Brown 😉
Your husband is a legend! I love that he is looking at stuff like this at work. Great video and the recipe looks easy to do. Thanks for sharing Tracy!
He sure is, Selma! 🙂 It was super easy and incredibly good!
Tracy, I have nominated your for The writing process blog tour. Stay tune tomorrow for details! =)
Wow, thank you!! 🙂
🙂 most welcome!