Homemade Almond Butter
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 8
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 118.1
- Total Fat: 10.7 g
- Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
- Sodium: 72.8 mg
- Total Carbs: 3.5 g
- Dietary Fiber: 2.1 g
- Protein: 3.8 g
View full nutritional breakdown of Homemade Almond Butter calories by ingredient
Number of Servings: 8
Ingredients
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1 cup raw or roasted almonds
¼ teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon canola oil (or you can use sesame or other unrefined oil)
Directions
While almond butter can be made from raw nuts (which will give you the most nutrients), roasting the nuts just prior to making the butter considerably enhances both flavor and aroma.
To roast the almonds, spread them in a thin layer on a baking sheet at 300°F for about 20 minutes. Stir a couple of times to assure even roasting. (or buy already roasted nuts)
Combine the almonds and salt in a food processor, blender, juicer, coffee grinder, meat grinder or nut butter machine and process until the nuts are finely ground. (If you used a coffee grinder, switch the nut powder over to a blender at this stage.)
Add the oil and continue processing until the almond butter reaches your desired degree of smoothness, adding more oil if necessary. For chunky butter, stir in ¼ cup chopped almonds. Store, tightly covered, in the refrigerator.
Variations: Substitute Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts or macadamia nuts for the almonds. Or combine two or more of these nuts in any proportion.
Makes about ¾ cup.
Number of Servings: 8
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user C5GALAXY.
To roast the almonds, spread them in a thin layer on a baking sheet at 300°F for about 20 minutes. Stir a couple of times to assure even roasting. (or buy already roasted nuts)
Combine the almonds and salt in a food processor, blender, juicer, coffee grinder, meat grinder or nut butter machine and process until the nuts are finely ground. (If you used a coffee grinder, switch the nut powder over to a blender at this stage.)
Add the oil and continue processing until the almond butter reaches your desired degree of smoothness, adding more oil if necessary. For chunky butter, stir in ¼ cup chopped almonds. Store, tightly covered, in the refrigerator.
Variations: Substitute Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts or macadamia nuts for the almonds. Or combine two or more of these nuts in any proportion.
Makes about ¾ cup.
Number of Servings: 8
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user C5GALAXY.
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This is very tasty. I roasted the almonds after spraying them with a little butter spray, sea salt ,cinnamon and sugar. I then processed 1 cup of almonds with the 1/4 tsp sea salt, added the canola oil, atleast 2 tbsp for me, more cinnamon-sugar mix, some organic honey. Halved the mix, +tsp allspice - 7/12/09
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This is excellent! I have made almond butter before, but never this good. Must be the roasting that makes all the difference. I ground them in my food processor, than ran it through my Champion Juicer (in nut butter mode). Turned out gooey, just like peanut butter... only soooooooo much better! - 4/30/09
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