How to Make Almond Butter

Make your own almond butter at home with this easy recipe and only 1 ingredient, raw almonds. This healthy and nutritious almond spread is delicious on toast, in porridge or as a substitute for butter in your homemade desserts and pastries.

The almond butter is simply an oleaginous paste like the peanut butter, but prepared here with raw almonds. It can be used in breakfast toast, in sweet recipes but also to replace butter in vegan recipes.

Making almond butter is very easy, with blanched almonds for white almond butter or with roasted almonds for complete and raw almond butter.

And as in all nut butter recipes, you just have to mix the almonds in a food processor until you have smooth almond butter or stop before to have a crunchy almond butter with the delicious flavor of almonds.

It's a healthy recipe, with no added sugars or other fats. And besides being delicious, it is also very nutritious, rich in vitamin E, a good source of vegetable protein, and good fat, and with many other benefits for the body.

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What to do with this recipe

Very trendy in healthy food, this almond puree is used a lot in sweet recipes, especially to replace butter in some diets.

But it also tastes great in porridge with oatmeal, in cookies, brownies, or as a topping for pancakes.

Here are some recipes from the blog where you can use almond butter:

• Chia pudding
• Homemade pancakes
• Energy date balls
• Homemade chocolate granola
• Oatmeal and chocolate chip truffles

Benefits

In addition to being very good and full of flavor, consuming almond butter daily will bring you multiple benefits for your health:

• Good fats protect us from cardiovascular diseases.
• Rich in antioxidant vitamin E
• Fiber contribution for a better intestinal transit
• Low glycemic index
• Source of magnesium

Tip: Use raw almonds or preferably organic, hulled almonds and if possible, soak them beforehand to remove enzyme inhibitors and make them more digestible.

Ingredient needed

To make homemade almond butter, you only need one ingredient, almonds and that's it.

Almonds: For a whole puree use almonds with the skin on and roast them in the oven for a nice roasted almond taste and for a white almond butter, use the almonds without the skin.

Materials: Use a powerful blender or a good food processor to blend the nuts into a smooth and creamy paste.

⚠️ You will find the quantities and complete instructions in the recipe card at the end of the page.

How to make Almond butter recipe

1 - Roast Almond

1. Preheat oven to 329°F/150°C and prepare a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
2. Place the whole almonds with the skin on and spread them out over the surface.
3. Bake the almonds for 10 minutes until they take on a darker color and give off a delicious hazelnut smell.
4. Let the almonds cool for a few minutes before blending.

Tip: The roasted nuts step is optional but I strongly recommend it because you will have an even tastier spread.

2 - Mix the almonds

1. Place the toasted almonds in a food processor, blender or thermomix.
2. Blend on high speed in 2-minute increments until you get first an almond flour texture that will slowly turn into a thick paste and then become more liquid and smooth.
3. The almond butter is ready when it has a smooth and creamy nut butter texture.
4. Transfer the paste to a glass jar with a lid.

Tip: for a crunchier mixture, just stop a little earlier at the desired consistency.

Recipes Variations

Natural it already has a delicious taste and very tasty, but you can add some additional ingredients to make a paste with more flavor and greediness:

• Natural sugar: like honey, maple syrup or agave syrup.
• Oil: For a more fluid texture you can also add a neutral vegetable oil like coconut oil, avocado oil or hazelnut oil.
• Chocolate: Unsweetened cocoa powder or melted chocolate for a chocolate-flavored paste.
• Nut mix: make a mix of hazelnuts, pecans, cashews…
• Flavor and spices: pure vanilla extract, fleur de sel, ground cinnamon, etc.
• Seeds: for more texture, sunflower seeds, flax seeds or chia seeds.

Storage instructions

Room temperature: The almond butter can be kept for a long time in a glass jar (jam jar for example). At room temperature, away from light and heat for several months. It is not necessary to keep it in the refrigerator or it will harden.

Can it be frozen? Yes, it can be frozen for up to 3 months. To defrost, let it return to room temperature or use the defrosting function of the microwave.

Why and how to soak almonds

Almonds are part of the oilseed family, like walnuts, cashews, and pecans … These dried fruits naturally contain a substance that makes them indigestible.

This substance prevents our body from properly absorbing the nutrients of these dried fruits. They are enzyme inhibitors.

And to eliminate them, you simply have to germinate them. (soak them in water for 8-12 hours). So, this action of germination of almonds will eliminate these enzyme inhibitors, this will have the effect of increasing its content of vitamins and minerals and will also make them more digestible.

1. Place your almonds in a large baking dish.
2. Fill it completely with water and a pinch of salt.
3. Cover with a tea towel and let stand at room temperature overnight. (8-12h for almonds). You will see the water look soapy with bubbles on the surface.
4. Then rinse your almonds several times and get rid of the soaking water.
5. And let the almonds dry completely.

Tip: Use a dehydrator to dry the almonds or place them in your oven at 122°F / 50-60°C for 2 hours then finish drying at room temperature overnight.

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