Why make your own peanut butter when you can buy it for couple of dollars? I get questions like these a lot. Firstly, as someone who grew up on homemade food, I can assure you that flavours of food made in factories pales greatly in comparison to food made with care and love. Secondly, packaged foods nowadays consists of too much unnecessary additives or poor quality ingredients that are really bad to our body. In the case of supermarket peanut butters – full of refined sugars, hydrogenated rapeseed oil and worse, palm oil (the main culprit of the yearly haze!).

This recipe is simply 3 ingredients – baked peanuts, salt and a little oil. Add any sweetener if you’d like it sweet!

3 ingredients Peanut Butter

You’ll need:

1 and 1/2 cup raw peanuts (skinned if smoother texture is preferred)

1 tsp Sea Salt

Grapeseed oil (as needed, or any oil with a neutral taste)

Brown sugar (optional, or any sweetener)

1) Preheat the oven to 200. Place the peanuts evenly on a baking pan and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

2) Meanwhile, get your food processor ready as you’ll need to blend them while they are piping hot, to release the most natural oils. Immediately transfer the peanuts and process till smooth and creamy.

3) Took me about 20 minutes; they went from crumbly, to forming small chunks, then a grainy sort of cream (add a little oil if too dry) and finally, smooth. Add salt and sweetener to taste, give it one last spin and pour it in a bottle.

Scoop ‘em with cucumbers and celery, drizzle over apple and berry salads, spread on whole wheat toast. Or, spread on biscuits and crackers.