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1. Place 3-6 cups of crispy nuts<\/a>* in the food processor, depending on how big your food processor** is. Don’t fill it much more than half or the nuts won’t pulverize properly.<\/p>\n
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2. Turn it on – high (see – not brain surgery!). <\/div>\n
3. Let the processor go – you might stop and pulse it for a while – until the nuts are pulverized. If they look like the pic below – keep going a few seconds longer. But, remember that almonds are going to be a little chunkier than peanuts. <\/p>\n
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4. Continue to process the nuts till they turn into almond butter. If you’re impatient like me and you don’t want to burn out your machine, add a little organic olive oil (1-3 T) until it’s “buttery”. As usual, just add a little at a time so you don’t end up with almond soup. You can substitute unprocessed, organic virgin coconut oil for the olive oil – but the butter will become pretty hard in the fridge if you do.<\/p>\n
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5. Store in the refrigerator. I can’t really say how long it will keep – because it never lasts long enough at our house to go bad.<\/div>\n
*You can <\/i>just use raw almonds out of a bag – but the crispy nut recipe<\/a> gives the almonds a richer, toastier flavor<\/p>\n
**You can also use a Vitamix to do this but not everyone has one of these incredible machines. <\/p><\/div>\n
I said this in my post on homemade hummus<\/a> – but I’ll say it again. A food processor it truly an invaluable kitchen tool and it doesn’t take up much space. If you don’t have one – you can find some great prices on Amazon – here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Just a note on almonds…
As of 2007, almonds sold by handlers (i.e. non-growers) in the United States are required by law to be “pasteurized”. The intention of the pasteurization is to limit possible outbreaks of salmonella poisoning in the general public. Sadly, the method – super steaming the outside of the nut or gassing it – invalidates the “raw” categorization. These nuts go rancid a lot faster. Thankfully, the law does allow you to buy “real” raw nuts directly from growers.Here<\/a>‘s a well written explanation of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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