Type Spread | Main ingredients Nuts | |
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Similar Nut, Almond butter, Peanut butter, Cashew butter, Sunflower butter | ||
How to make nut butter
A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by grinding nuts into a paste. The result has a high fat content and can be spread like true butter, but is otherwise unrelated. Nut butters include:
Contents
The almond, cashew, macadamia, peanut, pecan, pistachio and walnut are not true nuts in a botanical sense. However, because they are considered nuts in a culinary sense, their crushed spreads are called nut butters. Similar spreads can also be made from seeds not considered nuts in a culinary sense:
Nut and seed butters have a high content of protein, fiber, and essential fatty acids, and can be used to replace butter or margarine on bread or toast.
The following table gives some approximate nutritional properties of some nut and seed butters. Many of these contain additional oils or other ingredients that may alter the nut butter's nutritional content.
