Healthy Recipes 360 » Healthy Snacks http://www.healthyrecipes360.com Lose weight, cook healthy meals Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:29:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Homemade Almond Butter http://www.healthyrecipes360.com/294/homemade-almond-butter/ http://www.healthyrecipes360.com/294/homemade-almond-butter/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 04:23:03 +0000 admin http://www.healthyrecipes360.com/?p=294 Homemade almond butter is easy to make in a food processor. Normally you wouldn’t be able to make creamy almond butter with a food processor, you would just get almond meal, but you can if you add a little almond oil. That’s the trick. Almond butter is a very healthy snack.

This recipe uses raw almonds. I always use raw nuts – never roasted. Roasting introduces trans fats, which are not healthy for you. I buy raw almonds from Trader Joe’s here in Southern California. At this time, they go for about $4.49 per pound. One pound of raw almonds will make one jar of almond butter. Not only is this fresh almond butter very tasty, but also it is very economical. A similar jar of raw almond butter will go for about $8.00 or $9.00 in a health food store.

For this recipe I also bought some almond oil from our local health foods store – Whole Foods Market. This particular almond oil is the Whole Foods store brand and is expeller pressed.

Homemade Almond Butter

  • 1 lb raw almonds
  • 3-4 tbsp almond oil
  • 1 tsp salt

Add about 1/2 lb raw almonds to a food processor, then grind them up, then add remaining 1/2 lb almonds to the food processor. Continue grinding the almonds and add almond oil and salt during processing. Allow to completely mix for several minutes until smooth and spreadable. Don’t add too much almond oil. Try 3 tbsp at first. Add more only if necessary to allow almonds to blend. It will depend on how dry the almonds are. Using a rubber spatula, put finished almond butter into a canning jar when done.

Shown below is a shot of the ingedients and the food processor with a batch of almond butter in the works. The almond oil is on the left and a 1- lb bag of raw almonds is on the right.

After a thorough mixing in the food processor, the almond butter is creamy and spreadable and ready to scoop out with a rubber spatula into a jar.

After processing the amond butter in a food processor, it is ready to put in a jar.

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