Peanut Butter

@Olonam (870)
Philippines
August 2, 2012 4:49am CST
I was sitting down one day with a jar of peanut butter on my hand. I've always wondered how people made peanut butter. Do they just crush the peanuts? I've also heard some people making homemade peanut butter. Is it easy? What do you need?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
2 Aug 12
Peanut butter is made by grinding roasted peanuts to a paste, usually with the addition of a little peanut oil. Some sugar and salt is also added. You can make peanut butter yourself either by hand in a large mortar or by using a good quality, powerful food processor. It is much less trouble (and probably cheaper) to buy it ready made! Peanuts are legumes, like peas, beans and lentils, and it is possible to make a similar high protein paste from almost any bean. Such pastes are often flavoured with onion, garlic, chili and other spices and used as dips. One such paste (made from chickpeas or garbanzo beans and a sesame seed paste) is called hoummous.
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• Indonesia
2 Aug 12
all you need is peanuts and vegetables oil (peanuts oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, olive oil, all work). Put peanuts into food processor or blender, chop up the peanuts until you get the consistency you like (chunky or smooth) put into a bowl. Add 1 and 1/2tsp vegetable oil, mix it in with a fork. Taste it, add some salt, honey, brown sugar, or artificial sweetener if you are diabetic.
@aejey322 (1004)
• Philippines
2 Aug 12
My mom used to mix a bar of butter, powdered milk, and sugar in it. But the peanuts, she don't crush it manually, she brings it to the market where a store grounds peanut. Sometimes, she brings all the ingredients so by the time the peanuts are in the process of grinding, it also mixes the other ingredients at the same time.