Today I'm going to show you how to make peanut butter at home. This is a very tasty, fragrant and incredibly satisfying treat that can be used as a spread for toast and cookies. Peanut butter is good as a topping for ice cream, it can be added to the composition of homemade baking or just eat with a spoon - as you like.

The recipe for this nut butter is simple, because its base is roasted peanuts - one of the most inexpensive and affordable types of nuts. Many people like peanut butter in its pure form, so to speak - that is, only peanuts and nothing else. But for our family and for me personally, such a dessert turns out to be too bland, so I always add flavoring fillers - sugar and salt. To obtain a smoother and more uniform consistency, refined vegetable oil is also included in the composition of homemade peanut butter (it also increases the shelf life of the finished product).

Ingredients:

Cooking step by step with photos:

To make homemade peanut butter, peanuts are an essential ingredient, but I strongly advise you to add quite a bit of refined vegetable oil, salt and sugar. As a sweetener, you can choose not only sugar, but also honey, molasses, syrups.

Peanuts for pasta are suitable both raw and already roasted. In addition, you can use salty - then you do not need to add salt to the pasta. The number of nuts can be absolutely any - I indicated the one that I had at the time of preparation. You can fry peanuts both in the oven and on the stove or in the microwave (my version). It is important not to let the nuts burn or even burn, otherwise the paste will turn out bitter. In the microwave, I toast the peanuts on the highest setting for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to ensure even cooking. In the oven, the nuts are dried at about 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

The next step in making homemade peanut butter is peeling the nuts. A thin skin is removed from roasted peanuts quite quickly and without problems, but it is most convenient to peel a large number of nuts not individually, but using a regular plastic bag. Let the nuts cool slightly, then transfer them to a bag and tie it.

Next, we need a blender or a food processor - it must be powerful, otherwise the paste will take a long time to make and it’s not a fact that your device will not burn out! Some cooks even use a coffee grinder, but then you have to make peanut butter in small portions. We put a part of the peanut in the bowl, add a little vegetable (I have sunflower) oil, salt and sugar (in the process, you can adjust the taste to your personal preferences).

Let's start grinding the nuts - in the following steps I will show how the consistency of the contents of the bowl changes. First, a small nut crumb is obtained.

Gradually, this dry crumb will begin to moisten (oil is released from the peanuts) and clump together. Remove the lid and use a knife or fork to clean the mass from the sides of the bowl so that it again lies on the bottom.

After a couple of minutes, the peanuts will turn into a paste. The mass will heat up, even more oil will stand out, due to which the mixture will become thinner and even more homogeneous. If your kitchen helper gets too hot during the chopping process (and it will get hot, no doubt), turn it off and let it cool down a bit. Then we continue to grind the nuts to the desired consistency.

Everyone loves to nibble on nuts, so we're going to share a few recipes with peanuts. Because only experienced housewives know how much you can cook from them, and we will add interesting ideas. And if you want to pleasantly surprise your family and friends and be known as an excellent cook, we have prepared for you all kinds of recipes with peanuts. This versatile Chinese nut is used in many dishes, even soups. Read, try, enjoy the creations of your pens.

Considering that the peanut is a leguminous plant, in burning Africa it is added to soup with peanuts. What products will you need:

• Roasted and not salted nuts;
• Chicken;
• Bell pepper;
• Onion (bulb and sweet potato);
• Carrot;
• Tomato;
• Garlic;
• Water;
• seasonings;
• Salt;
• Sunflower oil (for frying vegetables).

Cooking method. Boil the tomatoes, squeeze out the pulp from them (you can use thick homemade tomato juice). You will need 7 tablespoons of pulp. Pour 1 cup of peeled unsalted roasted peanuts with water and cook for about 1 hour. Pour four pieces of chicken drumstick with water (2.5 liters) and put to boil. Ready to get the shins. Grate the sweet potato, add it to the chicken broth, salt the broth (to taste).

Whip the cooled nuts, 4 cloves of garlic and tomato puree in a blender. Pour into soup and simmer for another 15 minutes.

Frying

Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots, chop the sweet pepper (it is better to use red), pour everything into a frying pan heated with vegetable oil and fry until golden brown. Transfer the roast to the first. Add spices to taste:

• Chile;
• hot pepper;
• Curry;
• Cayenne pepper (all to taste)

Close the saucepan with a lid and leave on a divider over low heat to simmer for about half an hour. Divide the meat so that there is a piece in each plate (if there are four servings, one drumstick per plate). The soup is ready. Pour into bowls and serve.

Dishes with peanuts differ in taste, type (hot, snacks, pastries), but they are all healthy. We pass from the first to the second.

Although South America is considered the birthplace of the peanut, it is called the Chinese nut. Why? Probably because the Chinese are big entertainers. We offer you a recipe for chicken with peanuts - Chinese cuisine.

Second - chicken with peanuts

To prepare tender chicken meat you will need:

• Fillet or chicken breast;
• Hot peppers;
• Ginger (fresh)
• Sesame (seeds);
• Soy sauce;
• Garlic;
• Sugar;
• nuts;
• tomato paste;
• Vinegar;
• Vegetable oil.

How to cook chicken with peanuts in Chinese? Nothing complicated. Rinse and dry the meat (2 fillets or 1 breast). Cut into pieces. For the sauce you need:

• Grate 1 piece of ginger;
• Chop the garlic in strips (a few cloves);
• Chop half of a hot pepper.



Put the garlic in a hot pan with vegetable oil, fry until golden brown, then add pepper, half a tablespoon of sesame seeds and ginger. Fry, stirring constantly, for up to 3 minutes. Put chicken meat in a pan, fry over high heat until a blush appears (about 7 minutes). Then add 1 tsp. Sugar, soy sauce, tomato paste, 1 tbsp. Vinegar (add all spices to your own taste). To get a not too liquid mass, like mashed potatoes.

Dry nuts (about 1 cup) in the oven, peel, break the nucleoli into two parts. Mix the nucleoli with chicken, mix. Fry a little more (but not more than 1 minute), turn off. Dinner is served. Such unusual meat can be served with a rice side dish, with potatoes, or with vegetables.

There are also many recipes for cold peanut snacks. We offer you to prepare a light and tasty salad.

Cold snacks

Ingredients for the first:

• Boiled chicken fillet;
• Corn;
• Boiled chicken eggs;
• Shredded white cabbage;
• Mayonnaise;
• Roasted and peeled peanuts;
• Salt.

Salad with peanuts and chicken is laid out in layers in beautiful dishes, each layer is smeared with mayonnaise. Salt as you like so that the appetizer is tasty and not too salty.

1 fillet (you can fry, you can even buy ready-made smoked, your preference). Cut into pieces and put the dishes in the first layer. The second layer is 2 chopped eggs. Put 1 can of canned corn on top - 3rd layer. Put 100 grams of cabbage in the fourth layer. Break the nuts in half and lay out the last layer. Top with mayonnaise. You can decorate with tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs (for beauty). Ready.

Another salad with peanuts can be prepared with:

• pickled mushrooms;
• Raw carrots;
• Garlic;
• eggs;
• hard cheese;
• Corn;
• mayonnaise;
• 100 grams of roasted nuts.



Cooking

Grate raw carrots, garlic, hard cheese. Cut eggs. Mix 1 jar of mushrooms with corn. Chop 2 eggs. Add grated and chopped products, half a glass of peanuts. Season with mayonnaise, add salt as you prefer, mix thoroughly. Decorate with the remaining nuts. You can also spread, as in the first salad, in layers:

1. Mushrooms.
2. Eggs.
3. Carrots with garlic.
4. Corn.
5. Grated cheese.
6. Nuts.

Layers can be rearranged as desired. Try. It will turn out very tasty.

Peanut dishes can be not only hot, cold snacks, but also all kinds of sweets. Cookies, cakes, sweet sausages. Here the flight of your imagination is unlimited.

We suggest baking a cake with peanuts.

"Sand Miracle"

This is an unusual cake with nuts and condensed milk. Necessary products for the test (shortcake):

• Yolks;
• Sugar;
• Butter (margarine);
• Flour;
• dough baking powder;
• Cocoa.

How to make dough?

Grind 3 yolks with 1 glass of sugar, add softened 200 grams of butter (or margarine). 2 - 2.5 cups of flour (from the size of the yolks) mixed with 2 tsp. baking powder and 1 tbsp. Cocoa. Mix everything, knead the dough so that it sticks out of your hands. Divide into 3 parts.

To prepare meringue for our cake, you need:

• Proteins;
• Sugar;
• A pinch of salt;
• Chopped roasted peanuts (300 grams, 100 per cake).

Beat 3 proteins with a mixer into foam, add a little salt and pour 1 cup of sugar

Cream Ingredients:

• 1 can of condensed milk;
• 200 grams of butter.

What else is needed?

Beat condensed milk with butter until smooth.

Roll out three cakes, lay on parchment. Spread evenly on top of each of the writhing proteins, sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake each cake in the oven (180 degrees) for up to half an hour (the meringue turns into a crisp). Then cool them all down. Spread cold cakes with cream and put in a cool place (you can in the refrigerator, above 0) for about 2 hours. Sweet is ready. This pastry with peanuts will delight your family and friends. Cook with taste, bon appetit.

Like all products, peanut butter on the market differs in price and quality. Therefore, before buying, you need to carefully study the label - pay attention to the content of palm fat in the paste.

Palm oil is a dietary fat derived from palm oil. This product is now very popular, so many environmental scandals are associated with it, because tropical forests are massively cut down for the production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, palm oil is a necessary ingredient in good peanut butter, without which it will be patchy and crumbly. If you bought a jar of peanut butter, but did not find palm oil in the composition, do not be discouraged - buy palm oil separately and add it to it.

Peanut butter is native to Africa, but it is most popular in the Americas. In the United States, peanut butter has been a favorite treat for children and adults since the late 19th century. It is traditionally spread on toast and crackers, eaten with pancakes for breakfast.

However, the scope of this product does not end there. We offer you three original recipes with peanut butter.

Quick satay sauce

In general, “Satay” (or “sate”) is a popular Malaysian and Indonesian dish, which is small skewers on skewers. This dish is inconceivable without sauce, most often peanut sauce. That is why the latter was also called "Satay". To make this sweet and spicy sauce you will need:

• 2 tablespoons "crunchy" peanut butter (the longer the butter is stirred during production, the crunchier it will be)
• 2 tablespoons of coconut milk;
• 1 teaspoon of chili pepper;
• vinegar.

Mix pasta and coconut milk, heat the resulting mixture in a small saucepan, add pepper. Then remove from heat, let cool slightly, salt and add wine vinegar. Satai is ready.

Peanut butter frosting can be used to top donuts, muffins, and other baked goods. It is prepared very simply:

• 450 grams of peanut butter ("not crunchy");
• 200 gr of powdered sugar;
• 250 gr butter.

Melt the butter in a frying pan, and soften the peanut butter a little in the microwave if it was previously stored in the refrigerator. Combine pasta and butter, and then add powdered sugar to them. Mix everything thoroughly and slowly. If it gets too thick, you can add a little water. Cover the confectionery until the glaze has thickened.

Peanut butter is rich in vitamin B and is an excellent source of energy. If you're short on time and you're hungry, there's a great option for a hearty, quick snack. Take a carrot, celery and an apple, cut them into small pieces and then eat them dipped in peanut butter. Satisfaction guaranteed!

A popular American delicacy is made at home from grated peanuts with sugar and honey. Nuts were used as an additional source of calories at a time when food was in short supply, because they are very nutritious. The recipe for homemade peanut butter has been preserved in every American family, but housewives know how to make sweet mousse.

Benefits of Peanut Butter

The benefits of peanut butter are due to its composition. Peanuts are high in protein, vitamins and other nutrients. It contains antioxidants, magnesium, fiber and folic acid - this leads to partial cell regeneration and improvement of the cardiovascular system of the body, improves metabolism, strengthens the immune system, and helps with anemia. Calcium in the composition is designed to improve the condition of the musculoskeletal system, strengthening bones.

You can use this delicacy for children from a young age, since it does not contain harmful substances (cholesterol). However, some studies have shown that frequent intake of peanuts increases testosterone, a male hormone that leads to weight loss and normalization of the development of the muscular system. Studies have not shown negative consequences for women. This product has been the basis of vegetarian food for more than a hundred years, as an excellent meat substitute, as a source of protein.

The high calorie content of the dish allows you to saturate the body with just a few spoons. The average calorie content is 588 per 100 grams of product. To improve the taste, ingredients such as cocoa, sugar and jams are added. In the traditional version, such a product is a dessert - it is spread on toast or added to other foods.

Harm

The harm of peanut butter is due to its allergenicity. If a person has a pronounced allergy to nuts or nutmegs, then he may feel worse after eating this dish. Additionally, manufacturers can add synthetic additives (flavors, preservatives and a large amount of sugar) for long-term storage. These substances can be harmful to health, but home-made peanut butter is prepared without impurities, therefore it is considered healthy and natural.

What do you eat peanut butter with?

Our compatriots do not know what they eat peanut butter with, so they avoid cooking it. However, the easiest option would be regular bread or buns. People in the United States spread peanut dessert on toast for breakfast, which provides the body with strength and energy. You can also use the mixture as a pastry cream or as a sweet sauce for some dishes. Use outside of desserts is unpopular.

Peanut butter is very popular with children. However, before you put the vase on the table, you need to determine its freshness. Pay attention to the color: if the mousse is dark, then the nuts were used old. If it seemed to you that the dessert was too sugary, perhaps an extra portion of sugar was added to it as a preservative.

How to make peanut butter

To prepare a traditional product, we need only four ingredients: the nuts themselves, salt, sugar, sunflower oil and some honey. The mixture is made from unsalted, peeled natural peanuts, which can be purchased at any supermarket. Rinse it at home and dry it on a towel before cooking.

Next, you need to take a frying pan or a baking sheet to fry the nut for 5-7 minutes over high heat before preparing a sweet dish deliciously. Further, the preparation of peanut butter involves grinding the nut in a blender. This should be done up to three minutes, then add the remaining components and continue to grind until smooth. You should get a mixture that resembles mousse, without pieces and lumps.

Recipes with peanut butter

A traditional peanut butter recipe can come in handy when making pastries, desserts or lunches. By combining the right ingredients, you can create a unique product every time that your family will appreciate. There are no restrictions on adding cocoa, dairy products, condensed milk or other components to the composition.

cookies

• Cooking time: 20 minutes.
• Number of servings: 6 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1750 kcal.
• Cuisine: American.

Peanut butter cookies are quick to make if you already have a pre-made or purchased main ingredient on hand. Baking is filling and high in calories, but you can always reduce the amount of sugar, especially if you are going to give cookies to children, and if gaining weight is not your goal.

Ingredients:

• peanut mousse - 150-200 grams;
• flour - 250 grams;
• butter - 100 grams;
• chicken egg - one;
• sugar - 150-200 grams;
• salt - a pinch.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the main component with melted butter in a blender.
2. Add an egg to the mixture.
3. While stirring, add the rest of the ingredients. In the process, the dough becomes denser.
4. Shape the cookies into whatever shape you like.
5. Bake for 10 minutes in the oven at 160 degrees.

cake

• Cooking time: 30 minutes.
• Servings: 5 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1650 kcal.
• Purpose: for breakfast, lunch.
• Cuisine: American.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

Cake with peanut butter in structure resembles a biscuit, each cake of which is smeared with mousse (as in the photo). The only difference is that a nut mixture is also added to the dough, which gives it a special buttery taste. Cakes smeared with paste will harmonize well with any filling, both with condensed milk and jam.

Ingredients:

• peanut mousse - 100 grams per biscuit, 200 grams per cream;
• sugar - 1 cup;
• flour - one and a half glasses;
• butter - 100 grams;
• chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
• soda - at the tip of a teaspoon;
• salt - half a teaspoon.

Cooking method:

1. For a biscuit, you need to beat peanut butter, eggs, flour, butter, sugar in a blender. Start beating the whites with sugar, then gradually introduce other components.
2. For the cream, you will need peanut paste, butter, sugar, which you need to beat with a whisk and bring to the consistency of a mousse.
3. Next, cut the biscuit into two flat cakes and coat them with cream. You can make three layers, grease one of them with jam or condensed milk (as in the photo).

Sandwich

• Cooking time: 10 minutes.
• Servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1550 kcal.
• Purpose: for breakfast, lunch.
• Cuisine: American.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

A classic delicious American sandwich prepared for dessert or lunch for kids or adults. There is nothing complicated here. A peanut butter sandwich is a very nutritious food. It is prepared as breakfast before going to school or work, or given to the child with them. The high calorie and nutritional content provides a boost of energy for the whole day, and it's also delicious!

Ingredients:

• sliced ​​bread (toasts) - optional;
• peanut mousse - 200 grams;
• additional ingredients (cocoa, chocolate, nuts) - optional.

Cooking method:

1. Sliced ​​bread can initially be fried or dried in a toaster.
2. Spread bread with mousse.
3. Decorate as you wish.

cupcakes

• Cooking time: 35 minutes.
• Number of servings: 6 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 1700 kcal.
• Purpose: dessert, for breakfast.
• Cuisine: American.
• Cooking Difficulty: Easy.

Peanut butter cupcakes are prepared in the same way as classic cupcakes. They will be based on any fermented milk product that you can find. Since nut butter makes the dough heavier due to its oily composition, it is recommended to add more soda quenched with lemon juice or vinegar.

Ingredients:

• peanut mousse - 250 grams;
• egg - 1 piece;
• a glass of kefir or yogurt;
• sugar - 1 incomplete glass;
• flour - 1 cup;
• soda - 1 teaspoon;

Cooking method:

1. Mix eggs and sugar into a thick foam.
2. Gradually add the rest of the ingredients. At the last stage, pour the flour in a trickle. The finished dough should fall off the spoon, not drip (as in the photo).
3. Fill the muffin cups and bake the dessert in the oven for 30-40 minutes.

Video

Let's start today with a riddle! What is this product with which all American television moms, having put on sandwiches, habitually send their children to school? And it is to him that they entrust the health of their little ones. I think you already know what we're talking about today! Even pronouncing this phrase is pleasant: “peanut butter”! So let's find out what it is? What do you eat peanut butter with? Why is it considered so useful? I think many people are interested in understanding these issues. So let's do it together! I'll start, and I'm waiting for your opinion, which I hope you leave in the comments!

Tasty and healthy

First of all, I want to emphasize the importance of this product. And this is clearly evidenced by shelves filled with pasta from different manufacturers in stores. Peanut butter has become a favorite among children. So, it can become a tool in winning the obedience of the little ones (parents, let's be a little tricky, especially when it benefits the kids).

But pasta is also the choice of adults; because this yummy has incredible nutritional value. It is included in a number of diets, for example, special nutrition for athletes. In addition, she can fall in love, she can conquer, she can play a great service. It is strange that at the same time we have mastered only a modest spread of it on bread. And that is why you need to find out what peanut butter is eaten with.

sandwiches

Traditionally, pasta is spread on bread. But even here, using your imagination, you can invent something interesting that our family will certainly appreciate. For example, bread can be toasted or made into toast. Or, on top of the pasta, grease the sandwich with jam, jelly, cream.

You can sprinkle with crushed nuts, raisins, top with chopped thin slices of fruit: strawberries, figs, bananas, apples. Such a “decor” itself will add unusualness to a sandwich, originality and piquancy to its taste! Or, put cheeses on the pasta: cheese (even slightly salty cheese is interesting, but you can pick up less salty), mozzarella, feta, etc.

Fruits vegetables

The simplest, but no less tasty and healthy use of pasta is with fruits and berries. Bananas, pears, kiwis or plums, cut into 1-2 cm pieces and generously greased, will surprise guests with a variety of flavors. What else do you eat peanut butter with? With vegetables, if the pasta is savory. Vegetables can be boiled, steamed, baked, fried and even raw. Pasta will give them a delicate taste and satiety.

Jelly and marmalade

Who would expect THIS from a simple marmalade? Have you tried smearing it with peanut butter? Believe me, it's amazing! All of the jelly kind are perfectly combined with pasta: and marshmallow. A. If you want to impress your guests with something stunning, but have not yet figured out how, here's a gift from me - a light, delicious dessert! It consists of whipped cottage cheese with pasta and cream mixed in a blender with jelly. This is laid out alternately in several layers. From above, you can decorate the dish with nuts, berries and chocolate.

Cookie

Peanut butter is just a salvation for everyone who, for whatever reason, does not want or cannot bake cakes and pastries. It is enough to grease the tender cookies, let them stand for 10-15 minutes, and the cake is ready. You can make this dessert from several layers, alternately laying out “cakes” and cream.

Peanut butter is incredibly healthy. It contains proteins, vitamins and minerals. She is very nutritious and helpful. And most importantly, fabulously delicious. Any dish from it is an occasion to pamper your family. So do not deny yourself this pleasure!

Kashi

Let's make the morning, and the whole day, beautiful! And vivid emotions will be given by a spoon or two of peanut butter, which we will add to porridge! The rich flavor of nuts is in harmony with both simple oatmeal and rice, semolina, and buckwheat. You can add to such a porridge and a spoonful of honey, berries, raisins, poppy seeds and chopped fruits.
But that's not all peanut butter is eaten with. It can be added to the composition of cakes (both in creams and cakes), in sauces, in fillings. It will be amazing, temptingly tasty and nutritious if you put a few spoons of peanut butter in a fruit salad.

Ice cream

Do you love making ice cream yourself? Then don't forget to add peanut butter to it! But also in the form of gravy, pasta will make this dessert tempting. And if you mix ice cream with pasta in a blender, you can get just a luxurious dish!
Meanwhile, peanut butter is easy to make at home! I shared the step-by-step cooking process in a separate article Welcome!

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