Brilliant taste: You should always have this simple secret ingredient at home
Created: 2022-02-10Updated: 2022-02-10 4:28 PM
By: Anne Tessin
Clarified butter is the first step in making the perfect nut butter.
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Simple ingredient, big effect, that's nut butter.
Completely without nuts, it brings a lot of flavor to scrambled eggs, pasta and co. and this is how you make them yourself.
First of all, nut allergy sufferers can enjoy the nut butter without any worries.
Not a single nut is involved in the making of this delicacy.
The name comes from the
nutty aroma of the nut butter
, which gives many dishes such as bread dumplings*, pasta, but also scrambled eggs and co. a delicate taste.
You can easily make nut butters.
That's how it's done.
Nut butter: You need these ingredients
Butter.
That's all you need for nut butter.
Practical:
You have to consider this if you want to replace butter with oil when cooking and baking.
Easy recipe: How to properly prepare the nut butter
Put a stick of butter in a saucepan and let it melt slowly and gently.
You must not tan.
Then pour the butter through a strainer.
A coffee or tea filter is also suitable.
If you want to save this step, buy clarified butter (ghee) directly and process it further.
Now heat the butter moderately in a saucepan or pan until the egg whites curdle, the butter takes on a golden yellow to light brown color and the
water has completely evaporated
.
The temperature must not get too high, otherwise the nut butter will become bitter.
Now the butter can be poured through a filter again to filter out the last suspended matter.
Sweet cream or mildly sour:
which butter should you use for baking and spreading bread?
The browner the egg whites in the butter get, the nuttier the flavor will be.
The flavor comes from the
caramelized milk sugar
.
You can use the nut butter when cooking to add a finishing touch to scrambled eggs on the plate, or serve it directly instead of a sauce.
How long does the nut butter keep?
When the nut butter has cooled, transfer to a container, seal and
store in the refrigerator
.
It hardens after a while and then needs to be remelted before using it as a sauce.
You can use the nut butter directly to refine dishes.
The nut butter can be kept well chilled for
at least 14 days
.
(ante).