I’ve tried to make sunbutter in the past. My efforts have been less than successful. Most recently, I attempted it as a part of raw eating. So, of course, I used raw sunflower seeds.
Um, yah. Don’t do that.
Well, do that if you like that sort of green seed taste.
I don’t.
Not at all.
But, roasted and unsalted, and sweetened with a touch of lucuma powder?
Fantastic.
Lucuma-sweetened Sunbutter on a flax seed chip
Lucuma-sweetened Sunbutter
2 cups roasted, unsalted sunflower seeds
2 T. olive oil
3 T. lucuma powder
1/4 t. sea salt
Place sunflower seeds in food processor and process until fully ground and they’re forming a ball. Break up the ball, drizzle in the olive oil. Add lucuma powder and salt and process until smooth.
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i love making my own nut butters! i actually just finished making one tonight! thanks for sharing! it looks delicious!
This looks great! I had perhaps a similar experience trying to make raw sunflower seed butter. I made it chocolate and that worked well, but I agree that you definitely need to roast it if you want it plain. What does the Lucuma powder do for the flavor?
Lucuma is sometimes described as caramel. Mostly, I find it to be a very mild sweetener – not a lot of other flavor. I mostly just taste roasted sunflower seeds, but slightly sweet.
Lucuma! That’s so interesting. I haven’t heard of lucuma since I was in South America where it’s often a flavor of ice cream and candy. What about the recipe for flax seed chips? Would love to make some homemade ones!
I was just thinking that I need to make some more and post the recipe. I ate all the chips from the first batch already. 🙂 I’ll get on that.
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