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Hey I'm Megan Mitchell and I'm here in the Thrive Market Test Kitchen,
and today I'm gonna show you how to make pistachio butter. You may have had peanut
butter, or almond butter, or cashew butter; have you ever had pistachio
butter? It's really easy to make. It's two ingredients; it's pistachios and salt. But
you don't have to add salt if you don't want to .But before I get started be sure
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straight to your door. Alright let's get started; I have two cups of unsalted
roasted pistachios; but like I said you could do this with almonds, or peanuts, or
cashews, or whatever! You could even mix them; you want to get wild make a mixed
nut butter. Man why not, right? I am making sure these are unsalted so I can control -
because I'm a control freak -I can control how much salt is in my butter.
Okay let's do it. So what you need is a pretty strong food processor; if you have
a janky one this will take forever, and you might not get a super smooth butter.
So good food processor. Pistachios in, and a pinch of salt. You don't have to add
the salt if you don't want to, if you want to keep it just completely plain.
And this whole process - before it starts, it's gonna be really, really loud - I'm going to
explain to you what it'll look like. It'll go from breaking down the nuts,
it'll look like finely chopped nuts and then it'll start to come together - slowly.
I'm not adding any oil. The natural oils from the nuts will release,
and that will make it smooth and creamy. So it'll start to break down and then
it'll turn into a ball, and it'll kind of go around and if you need to push it
down, and then it'll go around again and then it'll smooth out and become creamy.
It's kind of wild to watch. So if you're doing it for like two or three minutes,
you're like it's not working. Give it a couple minutes, this takes five to seven
minutes. Also depending on your processor, it'll take a little bit, but don't give up.
If it starts to creep up the sides, just push it down a little bit. You can just
go in with a little offset spatula and just push this back down. It smells
really good. Start it up again.
Now you can see it's a ball, and then it'll smooth out into a creamy nut butter.
That's crazy yeah how it comes together like that, I mean that's wild.
We didn't even add oil and it's looks like nut butter. This is just a plain
pistachio base; and you can keep it like this on its own, but I'm gonna show you
how to make a vanilla flavor. There's also a chocolate flavor, but I'm gonna
show you how to make vanilla flavor and it starts with vanilla extract. Just add
it straight to the food processor, and this dried up a little on me, so I needed
to add liquid coconut oil. You could add, if you're allergic to coconuts,
you could add a any sort of neutral oil - light neutral oil. Maple syrup, you could
add honey, I just wanted to keep it vegan. And then to add even more vanilla flavor,
I'm gonna do a vanilla bean. Lovely. And don't throw away your bean; I like to
stick it in sugar and make vanilla sugar. You can also make a vanilla extract with
it. There's a lot of different ways to use the seed, the bean itself; the seeds
are in here. This is a bean, don't throw it away. Don't throw away your bean, okay?
Gonna blend this back up just until it comes together.
Scrape down the sides as needed. You can tell it's ready because it smooths
out and coats the bottom of the food processor. I don't think I've really ever
seen pistachio butter in the store, so I think this is just a cool way and
hopefully that showed you how easy it is to make at home, right? It's like kind of
surprising how easy that is. I'm gonna give this a taste, mmm! It's super smooth
and creamy which is kind of surprising; like you'd think it'd be kind of granule-y...
grainy? It's not at all, it's light. It tastes like pistachio with a hint of
vanilla, and I like that you can flavor it with whatever you want. Whatever you
like add to it. I hope you guys make this and give this a try. If you do, please let
me know! :et me know how it works out. Thanks for watching, happy cooking!
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