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How to Make Nut Butter with a Food Processor

October 27, 2009 · By Monica Shaw

DIY Almond Butter

Okay so the picture’s not very nice. That’s some almond butter I made the other morning on a whim out of raw, unskinned almonds. I wasn’t sure if it could be done in the food processor, but this website assured me it was possible.

I was so pleased with the results that I’ve since made roasted hazelnut butter and raw cashew butter. Now, toast awaits (my current bread is a wholemeal spelt loaf made using Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall‘s recipe for Malted Grain Brain, using spelt flour in place of wheat flour – it’s tasty!).

This is so exciting. A 170g container of raw organic almond butter costs £4.89, but I can buy 3kg of whole organic almonds for £22.60. Assuming those 3 kilos of almonds would make 3 kilos of almond butter, that’s £7.50 per kilo for homemade almond butter versus £28.76 per kilo for the jarred stuff. In other words, a huge savings of £21.26 per kilo!

But enough accounting. Here’s how it’s done:

How to Make Nut Butter with a Food Processor

  1. Acquire as many nuts as you like – I did mine in about 150g batches, but I’ll probably increase this significantly as the first few batches were so successful and disappeared quickly
  2. Roast the nuts if desired
  3. Put them in the food processor and turn it on to a high speed
  4. Be patient – it will take a while for the processor to pulverize all the nuts.
  5. Stop the food processor every so often to scrape the sides, but give it a good 2-3 minutes of uninterrupted blending between scrapings.
  6. Keep processing and scraping until the nuts start to clump up in little balls – this means it’s starting to give up some oil and form some buttery goodness!
  7. Add a little oil if you want – this isn’t at all necessary, but it does help achieve a smoother, more spreadable butter (if you look on the ingredients of some nut butters, especially cashew, you’ll sometimes see that they’ve added some oil for this very reason)
  8. Keep processing until your nut butter reaches the desired consistency

Overall, it takes about 10 minutes to make and it’s so delicious! If you want to do this, I highly recommend reading Make Your Own Nut Butters at Backwoods Home Magazine, which gives some more details about specific nut butters along with some pretty pictures.

About Monica Shaw

Veg lover, dog owner, hill walker, wild camper, avocado addict, nerd. I write about how to be awesome through a "smarter fitter" approach to eating, drinking, living and working.
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  1. Jes says

    October 27, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    I haven’t made nut butter in awhile, but I was on a big vegan nutella kick for awhile. Aren’t food processors the best?

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  2. Marina says

    October 27, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    I love making my own nut butters. I usually do peanut butter, sometimes almond. Cashews are really expensive here, so I just enjoy them in their form 🙂

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  3. Katharina says

    October 29, 2009 at 2:12 am

    Ah thank you so much for posting this!! I have a ton of pecans and I love pecan butter 😀 Actually a previous comment made me wonder if I can make something similar to a Nutella.. make a hazlenut butter first then melt in some chocolate?

    Reply
  4. Haylee says

    November 8, 2009 at 1:35 am

    aw thank you, thank you for this! As soon as I can get around to making my own nut butter, this will definitely come in handy.

    Reply
  5. dining room table says

    January 21, 2011 at 11:34 am

    This looks easy to make. I would love to try this one. Thanks a lot. I find it delicious.

    Reply
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