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Almond & Sunflower Butter | Add Some Veg - a delicious sugar, gluten and dairy free spread that is perfect slathered over toast or stirred into porridge. Easy, quick, and cheap to make! #nuts #nutbutter #vegan #glutenfree #sugarfree
Roasted Almond & Sunflower Seed Butter
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
 

A delicious sugar, dairy and gluten free spread that is yummy served on toast or stirred through porridge. Salty, sweet, soft and deep in flavour, it is a perfect alternative to peanut butter and is a simple thing to make.

Course: Breakfast, Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Low Carb, Pancake Day, Snack, Snacks, Sugar Free, Sweetener Free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Servings: 1 jar (about 2 cups)
Ingredients
  • 300 g (2 cups) almonds
  • g (1 cup) sunflower seeds
  • generous pinch of sea salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 190C/375F/gas 5. Pour the almonds, seeds and salt onto a baking tray, mix slightly and spread out. Bake for 10-15 minutes, until browning slightly and smelling fairly strong but not burning. Blitz until smooth and pourable - this will take a while, and depending on your food processor or blender, it may require you to stop the machine every few minutes to scrape the sides down and put it back on. Keep an eye on it and stop it to check it regularly. My Magimix does the job for me almost entirely by itself, I rarely need to stop and scrape and it is all done in about 5 minutes, but other food processors or blenders may need more regular checking and scraping. Also, let the nut butter blitz for longer than you think. It will first become chopped nuts, then flour-like, then eventually it will create a paste. Many people stop here but I find it makes a nut butter that's very dry and glues your mouth shut. Leave it for a couple of extra minutes after this and it will become a pourable consistency that is perfect for spreading on toast! Keep in a lidded jar on the counter or in the fridge.