Strawberry Peanut Butter Recipe -- Just peanuts, freeze-dried strawberries, and salt is all you need to make a healthy peanut butter like you've never had before!
sunday. Sunday. SUNDAY!
Yes, I'm popping in today instead of tomorrow to bring you a scrumptious recipe for this month's Recipe Redux!
Here's what this month's theme entailed:
Get Your Dehydrator On
Whether it’s extra garden bounty or a sale at the supermarket – dehydrating food is a budget-friendly way to stock up for later. You can use a food dehydrator, a low slow oven, or natural sunshine to preserve natural healthfulness. Show us how you like to dehydrate, or a healthy recipe for how you enjoy using dehydrated fruits, veggies or other bounty.
Confession: I sorta kinda cheated on this one. Okay, not sorta. Full blown affair on the theme. It's out there and my conscious is cleared. Whew! That feels so much better.
Consider this my plea and pathetic excuse for being a cheater pumpkin eater. I'm okay with that second part though. 'Tis the season, and pumpkin's the reason.
I had this brilliant idea in my head that involved freeze-dried strawberries, but came upon a predicament. Here in New England, the strawberry season lasts a good two weeks IF you're lucky. And that's way back in the distant memory that is June. Wasn't that like 10 months ago or something like that?
And after I'm done picking and eating my way to 30 pounds of the ruby reds, those strawberries usually last a good two days in my house. IF you're lucky.
Second. I don't own a dehydrator. Or freeze drier (is that such a thing?). And at the time I actually made this recipe in the humid heat of Summer, made turning on the oven to any degree seem sacrilegious.
And so, off I go to Trader Joe's. Plus, they do such a good job freeze-drying them berries already, so why mess with a good thing?! 😉
Now who doesn't love a good pb & j? Wait did someone actually say they DON'T? Well this is a P and B conversation, so you're gunna have to C yourself out.
Remember those jars of peanut butter with the jelly swirled in it? Or that pepto-esque jar of strawberry flavored fluff?
Not exactly the poster children of health, but they served to inspire my creation for a way to create an Extreme Makeover: PB edition that is sugar-free, gluten-free, and vegan.
And as easy as throwing stuff into a food processor. Blending. And consuming in vast amounts straight out of the jar. No bread required for this sammich.
Strawberry Peanut Butter
Description
Gluten-free, sugar-free, vegan.
Ingredients
- 2 cups dry roasted peanuts
- 1 + ¼ cups freeze-dried strawberries, divided
- 1 tsp kosher salt
Instructions
- Add peanuts, salt, and 1 cup of freeze-dried strawberries to bowl of a food processor.
- Blend on high for 3-5 minutes until smooth and well blended.
- Crush remaining ¼ cup of strawberries, and mix in to peanut butter.
- Transfer to lidded container and refrigerate for best quality.
- Category: Spreads
These strawberries are so unbelievably sweet, you would think they were loaded with added sugar. Nope. Freeze drying concentrates all that sweetness into slices of nature's candy fit for an astronaut.
Be sure to check out all the other dehydrated delectables this month below!
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And now I have a date with a jar of this and a day full of football. Set hike!
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Make it a great day!
Do you dry any of your own food?
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PS: A very happy birthday to my big bro John. Happy Birthday Fathead!!
Holly Larson
What a neat idea!
Emily Cooper
Thanks so much Holly!
Katherine Baker
Yummy! Love this. Very creative idea. Thank you can't wait to try!
Emily Cooper
Thanks Katherine! Let me know what you think if you try it!
LydiaF
This reminds me of mixing peanut butter and jelly together to make a spread that somehow tasted much better than the parts. I've pinned this awesome idea 🙂
Emily Cooper
Thanks Lydia! 😀
Dana
I would most definitely eat all of this straight from the jar. But really, is there any other way?
Emily Cooper
There's no BETTER way than that!
Katie
YUM! You are so smart.
Emily Cooper
Oh you're too kind Ms. Katie!
GiGi Eats
Strawberry peanut butter?!?!?! Now that's a new one, for sure!
Emily Cooper
Just trying to think out of the jar 😉
Amanda @ Diary of a Semi-Health Nut
You are a genius. Your foodie photography is looking so pretty too! 🙂
Emily Cooper
Thanks girl! It's about time I put some effort into making my food looks good before I stuff my face 🙂
Mireya @myhealthyeatinghabits
What a cool idea! Your a smart cookie.
Emily Cooper
Thanks Mireya! Now you got me thinking about cookies...
genevieve @ gratitude & greens
This sounds like dessert in a jar!
Emily Cooper
A healthy dessert at that!
Serena
Oh. Yum! Love the pic of you picking berries in New England! Wonder if you went to the same spot we used to pick them at?!
Emily Cooper
It's McQuesten Farm in a small little town of Litchfield, NH. I'd be surprised if you've been there 😀
Rebecca
What a great idea! Strawberry Peanut Butter sounds amazing!
Emily Cooper
Thanks Rebecca! I can't stop eating it! 🙂
AZ@...And a Dash of Cinnamon
What a cool idea!
Maardy
Hey Emily,
I see its a long time since this article was published, but that might be better so that your recipe is more tried & tested by now..haha.
How would this affect the shelf life of the peanut butter?
Normally the addition of oxygen or water (the oxygen in the water) that reduces the shelf life. Would you say that this mix has a reduced shelf life compared to making just peanut butter without the fruits or slat?
Looking forward to hearing your take on this?