Vegan Peanut Butter Recipe

Vegan by Default! Versatile recipe that you can use to make cream, milk, cheese, and curds too! All whole food plant based.

Peanut Butter doesn’t have butter!? exclaimed a friend as I savoured a dollop of the nut butter. No, I said, and no added sugar, oil, or preservative either. Rich, smooth and creamy peanut butter can be made with ease at home. What’s more, you can add your choicest natural flavours like cinnamon, raisins, date syrup, cocoa powder and the like, to personalise it.

Most of the peanut butters available in stores have unhealthy additives such as added refined sugars, extracted oil, and chemical preservatives. Even recipes for making peanut butter at home, often include added extracted oils. Oil inside the whole nuts are abundant in nutrition and contribute to health, unlike heated or refined extracted oils.

Here is a super simple, melt-in-the-mouth peanut butter recipe with only the goodness!

Whole Food Plant Based Peanut Butter Recipe

Course: Fundamental Recipe, Dairy Alternative Recipe
Cuisine: American Recipe
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings 2 people

INGREDIENTS

1 cup Peanuts

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Roast peanuts on an iron tava over low flame, Do not burn or over roast it. Stop roasting it when it starts becoming slightly brown. See Nutrition Science Highlights below for details.
2. Let it cool. Blend till it becomes a powder. Continue blending, scraping down the sides whenever it gets stuck, till you get a smooth and buttery consistency.
3. Fresh peanut butter is ready! It will not melt like butter, but has a rich buttery taste and can be used as spread in any dish. Or, just gobble a spoon by itself!

Plant Based Chef Pro Tips for Best Peanut Butter Recipe

1. Blend this peanut butter with some dates to make yummy peanut balls or peda.

Nutrition Science Highlights for WFPB Peanut Butter Recipe

1. Why not dairy? Dairy products have been found to be associated with increased risk of chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, asthma, PCOS, and heart disease. We can still enjoy our milk, cream, and butter though - as long as they are made from whole plant foods!
2. Why nuts instead of oil? Whole foods are healthier than processed foods. When nuts are pressed and oil is extracted, fiber and phytonutrients are lost, along with many other nutrients. Therefore, whole nuts are much healthier than oils, whether cold-pressed or refined. In addition, they provide the oil content we need to absorb fat-soluble phytonutrients from other whole plant foods! This may be why nuts are used to garnish nearly every traditional Indian dish!