Nut butters are a favorite food of mine. Nutritious, delicious and oh-so-filling, they can help you get through the winter, a time when you need more fat in your diet. They can be a great addition to any diet and promote your health and even weight loss! No I am not saying you cat eat a jar of nut butter and not gain weight, but eating the right kind of fats can actually help you lose weight. But I am talking raw, unheated plant-based fats. Roasted peanut butter won’t do either- which I never liked anyway since I don’t like peanuts! There, I said it: I don’t like peanuts!! I hope you still like me 
Since you can make butter out of anything, to make sure you are gonna like it, pick you favorite nut or seed and give it a hard ride in your food processor. Hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, walnuts, pecans, coconut, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts. Basically any type of oily seed/nut. Why make your own nutter butter you say? First, it’s muuuuchhhhh cheaper and secondly not all nut butters are easy to find. The most readily available butter in Greece is tahini (sesame seed butter), which is great since you can find it quite cheap and in every super-market. But sometimes, you just want something different… Peanut butter is also easy to find, but it’s roasted and almond butter is starting to become available in health food store, but is very expensive! So if you have a sturdy food processor or a high speed blender such as Vitamix or Blentec, you are good to go. I own a Vitamix but I actually think its easier to make nut butters in a food processor
Ingredients
-500 gr shelled pistachios
-3 tbsp almond oil
-pinch of salt
Dump the pistachios in the food processor or high speed blender and process until they become fine crumbs. Add in oil and salt and process more until it becomes a smooth paste. Transfer in a jar and keep refrigerated. Pistachio butter can be used as a spread ( you can also add agave to sweeten) , to make pesto or dips and it’s a great pistachio ice cream base. Get creative and go wild with pistachio butter!!
That pistachio butter looks delicious! You make a good point- I really should make my own nut butter… maybe a mix of coconut and almonds. That sounds so divine.
Yum! Ive never tried pistachio butter! What a neat idea. Beautiful photo too.
~Kathy
Your great photo has inspired me to try this pistachio butter using my Thermomix machine. I’ve done other nut butter but not Pistachio. Great incentive to play with nuts and nut blends. Thanks for posting this Nina!
That is such a good idea!! I’ve seen lots of nut butter, but never pistachio and it seems like it would be delicious. I’ll definitely have to try this soon.
I had the same idea a couple of weeks ago! totally delicious. Great minds obviously think alike. Last time I made it, I threw in some walnuts (so it was basically half and half) and it was awesome. Just thought I’d throw that out there, in case you want to try!
I’ve made nut butter out of pretty much every other nut, but not pistachios! I love the color and the photo. Pistachio butter would be fantastic, I’m sure.
Not everyone can like peanut butter, of course! 
You have such a nice picture. Pistachio is one of my favorite too
Great idea and such a beautiful photo! I had no idea it was so easy to make nut butters.
Looks absolutely amazing. Pistachios are my favorites, it is a definite must try! You have a wonderful blog, congratulations
following this blog, good stuff!
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