Honey Roasted Peanut Butter

Most know I (Jaren) am a lover of peanut butter and when I realized peanuts are bountiful here (as is time) in Benin, I took the opportunity to make it from scratch.

Two words to describe it: delicious and labor-intensive! It is a five step process that starts with shucking peanuts (harvested by Grandmere of course), followed by roasting the peanuts in the skin to then easily peel the skin off the nuts before roasting them again until golden brown. Once the peanuts look like the peanuts you snack on back home, that’s when you put ‘em through the grinder. The oils ooze out and peanuts become one big glob of deliciousness. To try something new, a little bit of locally-grown honey was added to the final product. “C’est doux”!