Desserts for Runners: Homemade Peanut and Almond Pasta

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Many recipes for energy bars and other delicious and highly nutritious desserts for runners use peanut or almond butter as the base. Cooking them is not at all difficult. How? We will tell you in this post.

Peanut paste

Ingredients:

• 220 g roasted peanuts;
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon honey;
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (preferably peanut oil).

Cooking. Peanuts and honey, peeled from the husk, are sent to the bowl of a food processor and grind, gradually adding vegetable oil for several minutes. This will end up with about a cup of smooth peanut butter.

Some recipes add more honey or butter, or grind the ingredients for longer. You have to look at what you get and change the cooking time or the amount of liquid ingredients depending on the consistency you want. But be careful with vegetable oil: it then partially separates from the bulk, so do not overdo it! A thin top layer of vegetable oil in a nut paste that has already stood for a couple of hours is quite normal.

Almond paste

Ingredients:

• almond;
• a pinch of salt.

Cooking. In this case, everything is much easier than with peanut butter. You simply put roasted almonds (one glass or more) in a food processor and add a pinch of salt if you like a slightly salty taste. Then grind the nuts for a long time. 15–20 minutes or even more - it all depends on the almonds. From time to time you will need to turn off the food processor and stir the nut mass until it reaches the desired paste consistency.

I had one small cup of almonds (volume - 200 ml) ground for almost half an hour. I suspect if there were more almonds, the pasta would cook faster:)