Almond-Butter Spread
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Here is my own recipe for a healthy bread-spread you and your family will enjoy. A good alternative for peanut butter or other sugar or corn-syrup loaded spread. I got my inspiration for this recipe from couple of traditional dishes - Baklava and Athirasam
All the ingredients has its own health benefits. Almonds are packed with vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber. Honey is a blend of sugar, trace enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids that has antibacterial, anti-fungal, and antioxidant properties. Honey has helped me a lot in reducing my seasonal pollen allergies. Found out consuming local honey works best as the bees interact with the local vegetation.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Almonds
- 1 tbsp Raw Honey
- 1 pod cardamom (Ēlakki/Elachi)
- 1 cloves (Lavaṅga/Laung)
- 1 small piece Cinnamon (Dālcinni/Daalacheenee)
- 2 black pepper (Kaalu meṇasu/Kalee mirch)
- ¼ tsp Ginger powder
- Optional - Nutmeg/Jāyikāyi powder and Saffron/Kēsari - a pinch
- Optional - Brown sugar /Jaggery (Bella/Gud) - to taste
Method:
- Soak Almonds for at least four to five hours.
- Remove and discard the skin. Spread the almonds on a towel for about 10 mins to remove water moistrue out.
- In a mortar, dry grind the spices (cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and black-pepper) into fine powder.
- In a blender or food processor, make almond paste. It is hard to get smooth paste, coarse consistence will do.
- Transfer the paste in to a bowl. Mix in the ground spices and ginger powder. Now add raw-honey and mix it all together. Note: You may blend ground spices and honey in the blender itself, but I found out it is difficult to clean the blender after that. I usually mix all together in the container I intend to store the spread and keep.
- Optional : may add jaggery, brown-sugar or sugar according to your taste... more sweet; Mix in pinch of nutmeg powder and saffron.
- Stored in refrigerator will last for a month.
- Enjoy your morning breakfast with toasted bread or croissant with homemade almond butter spread.
Tips:
- For your child's lunch-box, spread this mixture on cooked Chapathi/Roti and roll it in to tubes for easy munching.
- This mixture may be used as stuffing for other dishes like Modaka, Kadabbu, Dilkush/Dilpasand, turnovers, puff-pastries (especially Danish Bear Claw : recipe ) etc.,
Labels: breakfast, Lunch-box, Tiffin Variety, Vegetarian
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