Easy Homemade Nut Butter

You won’t believe how easy it is to make homemade nut butter! Thick, creamy, and oh-so flavorful, make this recipe once and you may never buy store-bought nut butter again. Store-bought nut butter can be tricky to navigate. Even some of the “healthiest” brands of nut butter contain added oils, sugar, and other ingredients that truly aren’t necessary for a creamy, delicious, and healthy nut butter. This easy homemade nut butter contains just nuts for a clean and simple taste.

Feel free to slather the nut butter on crackers, or bread, add it to a salad dressing, or a smoothie, or use it in brownies or a stir fry. Nut butters are great and so versatile. I bet you didn’t realize how many things you could do with nut butter.

If you like this recipe for Homemade Nut Butter try this recipe for Copycat Nutella, these Peanut Butter and Jelly Shortbread Bars, or this Spring Roll Salad With Peanut Dressing. You can easily substitute your homemade nut butter in the Peanut Butter bars and the Peanut Dressing.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe For Homemade Nut Butter

This homemade nut butter is super simple to make and tastes amazing. It couldn’t be easier to whip up a batch.

Ingredients To Make Nut Butter

• Nuts – I used 6 cups of organic nuts like walnuts, cashews, peanuts, macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts, pecans or your favorite combination! Make sure to buy unseasoned nuts.
• Coconut oil melted, optional

Equipment

• food processor
• 13 ounce jar

How To Make Nut Butter

• Add the nuts to the bowl of the food processor and blend until creamy and smooth. You may need to scrape the sides of the bowl down occasionally. Be patient as it will take several minutes for the oils in the nuts to be released and the nut butter to become creamy.
• Optional: if your nut butter is too dry, add a tablespoon at a time of melted coconut oil until your nut butter is the consistency that you like.

Storage

Store nut butter in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one month. I don’t recommend freezing homemade nut butter.

Pro Tips

Here are a few things you can do to make sure your nut butter comes out every time.

• Choose organic, raw nuts if possible and play around with different combination.
• Roast them yourself before blending into a nut butter.
• Experiment with different spices! Try pecans with 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice or a combination of cashews and cardamom or peanut butter and cinnamon, or how about Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, and basil seeds? Or you can even add a tablespoon or cocoa or cacao powder.
• To add texture to your nut butter add chia or flax seeds.
• The possibilities are endless now that you know how easy it is to make your own nut butter!
• If you’d like to ensure optimal nutrient absorption from the nut butter you can soak the nuts overnight and then place them in a food dehydrator to dry them out or place them in the oven at a low temperature for a few hours.

FAQs

How long does homemade nut butter last?

Homemade nut butter will last about a month or so.

Which nuts make the best nut butter?

All nuts are good for nut butter try a few different kinds to see which ones you like the best.

Are nut butters healthy?

Yes, nut butters can definitely be healthy. As long as there are no added sugars or oils nut butters are a great source of protein, healthy fats and vitamins.

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