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Peanut Butter Recipe – Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine

It is addictive. Not bad: every teaspoon of peanut butter is a bomb of energy and vegetable protein (highly recommended for athletes)

Ingredients

500 g shelled peanuts
20 g peanut oil
salt

Duration: 1 h

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

Shelled peanuts and remove the skin. Spread 350 g on a tray and toast them in the oven at 150 ° C for 15 minutes. Let them cool completely. It is important to let the roasted peanuts cool before blending them, otherwise the oily part will separate making it impossible to obtain a homogeneous cream. If your blender is not very powerful, you will get a slightly coarser, slightly grainy, but equally spreadable compound.
frullatele with a pinch of salt, until reduced to a paste. Add the oil to make the mixture softer.
transfer peanut butter in an airtight jar and keep it in the refrigerator: it lasts for 2-3 weeks.
sprinkle on bread, even with slightly acidic jams, which contrast its sweetness (it is less caloric than butter and contains Omega 3 and Omega 6, fats that are good for the heart, vitamins E and B, potassium and magnesium). In pastry, use it to prepare ice cream, in plum cake and biscuit doughs, to fill cakes, mixed with custard or cream. In the kitchen, spread a veil over a roast together with other perfumes or dilute it in a vinaigrette for salads and steamed vegetables.

Peanut Butter Hearts Recipe – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

225 g flour
200 g strawberry jam
125 g soft butter (room temperature)
100 g icing sugar
75 g peanut butter
1 generous spoonful of honey

Duration: 1 h 50 min

Level: Middle

Dose: 10 pieces

Jumbled up soft butter with icing sugar, 1 tablespoon honey and peanut butter, then mix in the flour. Place the dough between two sheets of floured baking paper and roll it out at 2‑3 mm thick; let it rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
Set aside then about twenty biscuits with heart-shaped molds (9 cm); puncture half of it with a smaller heart stencil (4.5 cm).
bake all the biscuits at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes, until they are golden brown. Remove from the oven, let cool completely, stuff the center of the whole hearts with 1 teaspoon of jam and overlap the frames.
Storage: cool, for 2‑3 days, in a tin box.

Chocolate, Banana and Peanut Toast Recipe – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

150 g dark chocolate
150 g vegetable whipping cream
100 g brown sugar
25 g salted peeled peanuts
8 slices of homemade milk-free crusty bread
4 tablespoons of peanut butter
2 ripe bananas

Duration: 45 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

For the chocolate, banana and peanut toast recipe, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and let it cool. Whip the cream with the electric whisk, then incorporate it in the melted chocolate to obtain a vegetable ganache. Dissolve the brown sugar in a saucepan with 20 g of water and cook it until you get a very light caramel.
Incorporate whole peanuts and another 25 g of hot water to make it more fluid. Peel the bananas and cut them into rounds or in half lengthwise and again in 2 on the short side.
Toast the slices of bread in a pan or in the oven for a couple of minutes, spread a spoonful of peanut butter on 4 of them, then distribute the chocolate ganache, bananas and complete with the peanut caramel. Close the toast with the remaining slices of bread.