Nut butter is a very tasty and healthy product. Especially if it is made by hand, without preservatives, dyes and flavors. How to make nut paste at home? It's pretty simple. There are several recipes and tricks that housewives should take note of.
Benefit and harm
Made from natural products, nut butters are packed with protein, vitamins, folate and fiber. It contains abundant minerals - iron, iodine, zinc, phosphorus, calcium and potassium. All of them are necessary for the work of the heart and blood vessels, the nervous system and the thyroid gland, and the brain. The paste normalizes blood cholesterol levels, is useful for anemia and increased fatigue, and improves brain function.
Due to its composition, the product saturates the body with energy for a long time and is useful both with increased physical and mental stress. By the way, in men, paste increases testosterone, in women - fertility, that is, the ability to conceive.
Of course, like any product, nut butter cannot be overused. Due to its high calorie content and high fat content, it should be discarded if you are overweight. And in the absence of contraindications, doctors recommend limiting yourself to three tablespoons of pasta a day.
Attention: allergy sufferers cannot enjoy dessert! Nuts can cause an unpredictable reaction - up to Quincke's edema.
Recipe
Ingredients:
- nuts (peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, Brazilian pine nuts or walnuts) - 200 grams
- sugar - 200 grams
- milk - 0.5 liters
- eggs - 1 piece
- cocoa - 4 tablespoons
- flour - 2 tablespoons
- butter - 70 grams
- vanillin - a pinch
Preparation
Peeled (sometimes they are pre-fried in a pan without oil), the nuts are crushed using a blender. Next, you need to boil and cool the milk. In a separate container, mix flour, sugar and cocoa, add an egg. Grind all ingredients thoroughly until smooth. Then you need to pour milk into the resulting mixture, add chopped nuts. After that, the mixture is put on fire and boiled, stirring constantly, until the mass becomes thick. You can add a little butter and vanillin to the finished product for sweetness.
Recipe without heat treatment
Ingredients:
- almonds - 300 grams
- sugar - 200 grams
- butter - 50 grams
- salt - a pinch
Preparation:
First of all, the almonds need to be dried in an oven preheated to a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius. The nuts are kept in the oven for 5 minutes, until they darken slightly. Next, the product is allowed to cool and chopped using a blender. It takes about 15 minutes for the mass to become sufficiently homogeneous without lumps. After the nuts turn into "dust", sugar and salt are added to them. The mixture is ground again in a blender. This time, about two to three minutes is enough. As soon as the sugar dissolves, add butter to the paste and mix everything again to the desired consistency.
Advice
By the way, experienced housewives have their own secrets that make an already delicious product special. All kinds of "chips" are added to homemade nut butter: for example, cinnamon and orange peel, honey and coconut, melted chocolate and ginger. There is an immense field for experimentation here!
