Peanut Butter

I know its been a while. I got something cooking up to write about soon but in the meantime, some jerk left a Kg of unshelled peanuts at my house so I made peanut butter.

A quick google search yielded some surprisingly easy recipe concepts: Peanuts go in blender with a bit of sugar and salt and what ever else you want to use for seasoning. Blend away and slowly add oil.

Here is what I went with:

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of unshelled peanuts - I'm not sure this weighs outside of the shell. It took a long time to shell. Go with already shelled if you can.
• A glug of olive oil (its all I had but if the olive flavour comes through, then there is another method to put some flavour in).
• Salt to taste
• Sugar to taste
• Cayenne - Think I used about a teaspoon in the end.

Directions

1. Shell peanuts. This was really time consuming and boring. 
2. Roast half of the peanuts in the oven at 400 F for approximately 10 minutes.
3. Combine peanuts (roasted and plain) in a food processor and blend away until a uniform consistency starts to form. 
4. Add seasoning (salt, cayenne, sugar in my case) a bit at a time until you get something that works for you.
5. Drizzle oil slowly while blending on low to allow the oil to combine with the mixture. 
6. Empty into a jar and you're done.

End result:

Can't taste the olive oil but I'm not even mad. It was that classic peanut butter taste but richer, woodier (in a good way) and the hint of cayenne at the end really worked out.

This was maybe the easiest, and most successful first attempt I think I've done. Using the shelled peanuts from the bulk section at the store would take out the only painful part of this process.