I made dark roasted crunchy peanut butter with Achill Island sea salt tonight. Blend in the back to show that I didn’t just buy peanut butter and call it homemade.
Edit: Thought maybe I’d make instructions a little clearer:
Preheat oven to 180C.
Lay 1kg of peanuts on as many baking trays to have them all in a single layer. Roast. Check and flip every 10 minutes for about 30-40 minutes or less to desired darkness. Make sure to pick out the ones that are roasting faster than the others or they will burn and it will ruin your peanut butter! Or you can pick them out before blending.
Remove from oven, let cool for at least 10 minutes.
Chuck roasted peanuts in food processor/blender (reserve about 200g for crunchy peanut butter) and watch the magic happen. It will go from full size peanuts to a crumble that sticks to the sides (use a spatula to scrape down), and then it’s start to get smooth.
Add about 2 tsp (or to taste, do 1/2 tsp at a time until desired saltiness) of flaked sea salt, blend. Add the reserve peanuts and blend to desired crunchiness.
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Edit: I guess it’s technically not cooking, but I wasn’t sure where else to share this… Recipe and all.
Liar!
Clearly you just smeared some store bought peanut butter on the blender for clout
(Seriously tho, it looks delicious)
Real question. How does one flip small stuff during baking? Your instructions say to flip the peanuts. Lots of baked things are supposed to be flipped halfway through. Flipping peanuts or sweet potato fries is random and haphazard at best. Do you have any techniques that are fast and thorough?
Ya caught me. :'(
I used two silicone spatulas to push them around. My oven has hot spots, so I had to keep checking and moving darker nuts away and paler nuts to the hot spots. Then I just used a spoon to scoop out the ones I didn’t want to roast anymore.
Too much work to flip them all one by one, so just rolled them around and hoped for the best.
My less than complete method for stuff like this is just shake the tray a bunch and whatever flips, flips.
Put another pan on top and flip the whole thing over? Just my thought, I’ve never actually tried it.
Wait until you try fries in an air fryer. Even if that’s all you use it for, it’ll be worth it.