Cashew butter: the recipe for making it at home

The very simple recipe to prepare cashew butter at home in 10 minutes and with just one ingredient. You can use it simply as a delicacy to spread on bread, but also to replace traditional butter in the preparation of sweets and biscuits, or to whip risottos

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Do you like cashews? Have you ever tasted the cashew butter? It is an alternative to the more classic peanut butter that you can easily prepare at home from a single ingredient: the cashews themselves. We advise you to choose the natural cashews (not salted or toasted) to prepare cashew butter, which would otherwise be too salty.

Find natural cashews both at the supermarket and in organic food stores or online.

Homemade cashew butter is great for spreading on bread but also as an alternative topping for risottos and other dishes. After experimenting with the preparation of the Almond Butter and peanut butter homemade, here's a new one prescription all to try, dedicated to gourmands and those who loveself.

We learn to prepare cashew butter at home in a simple and fast way.

Ingredients

With the indicated ingredients you will get about 350 grams of cashew butter:

350 grams of natural cashews
1 pinch of salt (optional)

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
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difficulty: low

How to make cashew butter

Prepare a clean glass jar to keep your cashew butter at its best.
Toast the cashews for 5-10 minutes in a pan or in a preheated oven at 180 ° C, until they are lightly golden.
Pour the cashews into the blender jug or into the kitchen robot.
Start blending for a couple of minutes until the cashews turn into a coarse flour.
Then continue to blend. You will notice that the cashews will gradually release their natural oils and turn into a cream.
Those with a powerful enough food processor can make cashew butter by simply blending them with a pinch of salt. Those who use a normal blender can facilitate this by adding a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and a tablespoon of water (water only if needed, to make the mixture easier to blend).
Your cashew butter will be ready when it is very homogeneous.
The advice is to blend the cashews in stages. Between one phase and the next, use a teaspoon to push the cashews that remain on the edges towards the center.

It is really simple to prepare, you just have to experiment.

How and how much homemade cashew butter is kept

Homemade cashew butter it can be kept in the refrigerator for about a week.

Two more tips

If you want to prepare instead a simple cashew sauce to use right now, perhaps to season the pasta in a slightly different way or to accompany the baked potatoes or vegetables, soak a handful of cashews in a bowl of water for a couple of hours (or even overnight). Then just drain them and blend them with a little soaking water, a drizzle of oil and a pinch of salt. Try it!

If you love chocolate and spreads you can add bitter cocoa during preparation, sprinkling it as cashew oil is released until you get a homogeneous mixture and very similar to the most famous chocolate spread of all, but very much healthier.

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