How to Make Peanut Butter

Overhead view of a jar of homemade peanut butter.

Learn how to make peanut butter with just 2 ingredients and a food processor! You won't believe how fast and simple it is to make at home.

Recipe includes a how-to video!

Course dip, ingredient, sauce, Snack

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Servings servings (1 ½ cups total)

Calories 208kcal

Author Sam Merritt

Equipment

Ingredients

3 cups (480 g) raw peanuts
Sea salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F (175C).
Spread peanuts over the baking sheet in an even layer. Transfer to center rack of 350F (175C) preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, stir peanuts on the baking sheet and return to the oven and bake for another 10 minutes. If needed, continue to bake in 5 min intervals until they smell lightly roasted and are slightly darkened in color.
3 cups raw peanuts
Remove from oven and sprinkle with sea salt. Allowing peanuts to cool before blending isn’t mandatory, but I prefer to do so as I don’t like to put hot peanuts in the plastic basin of my food processor.
Sea salt
Place peanuts in basin of food processor.
Pulse the peanuts repeatedly in 1-second intervals. The mixture will become dry and crumbly first, then will become more stiff and begin to clump together as you pulse. Switch from pulsing to blending continuously and continue to blend until peanut butter has reached a smooth, lump-free consistency. Store in an airtight container (I recommend a pint-sized mason jar!).

Video

Notes

Crunchy peanut butter

To make crunchy peanut butter, reserve a handful of peanuts until you are done blending, and then throw in at the end and pulse a few times to break up the peanuts.

Removing the skins (for a more uniform peanut butter)

Oftentimes peanuts come blanched/without the red skins on. If yours don’t, there is no need to remove the skins (they actually add fiber) but if you want to, you can do so. I recommend doing so after baking. Let the peanuts cool until then toss them in a colander and use your hand to roll them around the bowl and the skins will come right off. I demonstrate this in my video.

Storing

Homemade peanut butter will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks or in the refrigerator for 2-3 months.

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