Walnut paste is a very tasty and healthy product. Especially - if it is made with your own hands, without preservatives, dyes or flavors. How to make a paste of nuts at home? Everything is pretty simple. There are several recipes and tricks that housewives should take note of.
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Benefit and harm
Walnut paste made from natural products is a storehouse of protein, vitamins, folic acid and fiber. It contains in abundance mineral substances - iron, iodine, zinc, phosphorus, calcium and potassium. All of them are necessary for the work of the heart and blood vessels, the nervous system and the thyroid gland, and the brain. The paste normalizes the level of cholesterol in the blood, is useful for anemia and fatigue, improves brain function.
Due to its composition, the product saturates the body with energy for a long time and is useful for both increased physical and mental stress. By the way, in men, paste increases testosterone, in women - fertility, that is, the ability to conceive.
Of course, like any product, peanut butter cannot be abused. Due to its high calorie content and high fat content, it is worth giving up on being overweight. And in the absence of contraindications, doctors recommend limiting themselves to three tablespoons of pasta per day.
Caution: Do not enjoy dessert with allergies! Nuts can cause an unpredictable reaction - even Quincke's edema.
Recipe
Ingredients:
- nuts (peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, Brazilian pine or walnuts) - 200 grams
- sugar - 200 grams
- milk - 0.5 liters
- eggs - 1 piece
- cocoa - 4 tablespoons
- flour - 2 tablespoons
- butter - 70 grams
- vanillin - a pinch
Cooking
Peeled nuts (sometimes they are pre-fried in a frying pan without oil) are chopped with a blender. Next, you need to boil and cool the milk. In a separate container, mix flour, sugar and cocoa, add an egg. Grind all ingredients thoroughly until smooth. Then you need to pour milk into the resulting mixture, cover the chopped nuts. After this, the mixture is put on fire and cooked, stirring constantly, until the mass becomes thick. You can add a little butter and vanilla to the finished product for sweetness.
Recipe without heat treatment
Ingredients:
- almonds - 300 grams
- sugar - 200 grams
- butter - 50 grams
- salt - a pinch
Cooking:
First of all, almonds need to be dried in an oven, heated to a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius. Keep the nuts in the oven for 5 minutes until they darken slightly. Next, the product is allowed to cool and grind with a blender. For the mass to become sufficiently homogeneous without lumps, it takes about 15 minutes. After the nuts turn into "dust", they add sugar and salt. The mixture is again ground in a blender. This time around two to three minutes is enough. As soon as the sugar dissolves, oil is added to the paste and again everything is mixed to the desired consistency.