How To Make Peanut Butter At Home + VIDEO

For this homemade PB, all you need are 3 ingredients – dry roasted peanuts, coconut oil, and sea salt. I’ll show you how to make healthy peanut butter in your food processor and just how easy it is. I’ve included a how-to video as well because I know how helpful visuals are with this one!

How to make healthy peanut butter

I started making PB and many other kinds of nut butter over a decade ago. Once I began, I couldn’t stop because it is so easy and satisfying!

Plus when you make your own peanut butter at home, you know everything that goes into it.

Many jars of peanut butter that you buy off the grocery store shelves are filled with lots of ingredients, added sugars, and hydrogenated oils. No thank you.

Homemade peanut butter can be made with simply ground peanuts. Easy as that.

However, added a touch of coconut oil and sea salt makes your peanut butter smooth, creamy and delicious.

Let me show you how easy it is to make!

Ingredients needed for homemade peanut butter

• dry roasted peanuts
• coconut oil
• sea salt

How to make PB in the food processor

1. Add the peanuts to a food processor and turn it on allowing the peanuts to break down.  Scrape down the sides as needed.
2. Peanuts don’t take very long when making nut butter, maybe about 5 minutes max.  Once the peanuts begin to turn into a thick paste, add in the coconut oil and sea salt.  Turn the food processor back on and run it until the PB is creamy.

What to do with your tasty homemade PB

There are so many uses for it! First, simply grab a spoon and get after it.

You can also:

• Dip apple slices in it
• Use it in a sandwich or wrap
• Top your pancakes with it
• Mix it with yogurt and cocoa powder for a tasty snack
• Add it into your smoothies
• Make PB fat bombs

More homemade nut butter recipes to try

• Salted vanilla pistachio butter
• Cookie dough nut butter
• Cinnamon raisin peanut butter
• Cinnamon vanilla bean almond butter

If you try this recipe, I’d love it if you left a star rating and comment below letting me know how it turned out!

XO

Heather

*Originally published in March 2011. Updated January 2021.*