Zero-Waste Peanut Butter Recipe

Get ye to your local bulk-foods section!

If you are allergic to peanuts, my heart goes out to you!

For the rest of you, peanuts are super nutritious and a staple in House Cappello.

Peanuts are an excellent source of protein, are packed with iron (and other minerals), and vitamin E! We eat them whole in many of our snacks, but there’s also always a jar of peanut butter kicking around.

Why make peanut butter instead of buying it? You’ll be able to control the ingredients (you don’t need the added sugar or hydrogenated oils found in the conventional junk) and most of those plastic containers are unable to be recycled!

If you head to your local bulk-foods section, you can make yourself a zero-waste power punch that’ll fuel you all the livelong day.

Wegman’s Bulk Section. We get the the unsalted cocktail peanuts on the left. We usually get 2lbs in a reusable canvas bag.

Peanut butter is incredibly simple. You just need a food processor, peanuts, and salt. We use himalayan salt for the minerals, and avoid sea salt because it is full of microplastics.

You’ll slowly add the peanuts (through the opening on the top) while the processor is running: this helps it distribute and not jam. If it does jam, just redistribute and start it up again. I add the salt toward the end. You could have no salt, or start at 1/2 tsp, and go from there. Taste per your household’s delight, and blend per your desired thickness.

From start to finish this takes me just under 10 minutes. We jar it up and throw it in the fridge.