When life hands you lemons you make lemonade. When life hands you too much sunflower seeds, make sunflower butter. My husband and kids love sunflower seeds. What they don't love is the raw(un-roasted) and unsalted variety which I mistakenly bought on my last trip to the grocery store. I figured they would be fine with it, but it was like there was a sunflower mutiny on my hands. I hate to waste perfectly good food, so I had to come up with a way to use it. I decided to morph it into something they would never expect and grinding it up with some honey to make a smooth creamy sunflower butter seemed like a good idea. Eureka! Why haven't I done this before? What a delicious nut-free alternative for our favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I will have to buy more raw, unsalted sunflower seeds and this time there will not be a mutiny.
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Ingredients:
1 cup raw sunflower seeds
salt to taste
1-2 Tbs of honey (to taste)
2-3 Tbs of canola oil
Directions:
Toast raw (shelled) sunflower seeds in a pan until lightly golden. Allow to cool. In a food processor blend dry sunflower seeds with salt until almost "powdered" and fine. Then add honey and oil to make creamy and spreadable. Apply on bread, crackers etc... Store in fridge. Enjoy
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wow....lovely spread...innovative 1 toooooo
ReplyDeleteHealthy butter, lovely spread..
ReplyDeleteLove this healthy spread, bookmarked!
ReplyDeleteso very interesting! I have never even thought of sunflower butter. You are so creative Ramona! Well done.
ReplyDeleteLooked so interesting I had to read. Great recipe. Buzzed!
ReplyDeleteRamona, that looks so good! I am a huge nut butter fan, and this contains even fewer ingredients than my "natural" PB.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a delicious and all natural nut butter with so many wonderful ingredients :D
ReplyDeleteWell done my friend!
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Choc Chip Uru
What a great idea! I hate to waste food, but I know I do it too often.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh!! I'm so jealous! Sunflower butter is like my favorite thing ever, and then you added honey to it!! MMmmmmmm!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, how I love sunflower seeds...so how come I didn't know I could make sunflower butter??? This sounds wonderful!!!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a great idea, looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I will have to give this a try.
ReplyDeleteMy Hubby loves sunflower seeds, espciasloy ranch seasoned. So I buy a lot of these. Your buter is a genius idea! I will have to try it%! Thank you so much for sharing, my friend!
ReplyDeleteWow! This is such a unique idea. Sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteRamona - thank you, thank you, thank you! I have a huge jar of unsalted, unroasted sunflower seeds that will never get used before getting old. I know what we're having for lunch today! I'm headed over to spicy foods to learn more about you!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I have seen sunflower butter in the store (which is really expensive by the way!) but never thought to make my own. Will be trying soon! :)
ReplyDeleteThis looks lovely. I buy the Trader Joe's version but how easy it would be to make at home. Good call on adding the honey. Nancy's blog is on my to do list.
ReplyDeleteI love sun butter! Never even thought about making it at home. Bet it's so yummy!
ReplyDeleteVery unique recipe! I'm off to check Nancy's post on your interview. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this! This would be a great substituion in peanut butter recipes for anyone allergic to peanuts. I love that it's all natural too. Great recipe!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to make your own, Ramona. Do you know how much this would cost at the health food store. Very expensive.
ReplyDeleteGreat alternative to peanut butter!
ReplyDeleteOkay this should be a sin or something. No way this is legal.
ReplyDeleteThis Is Really interesting ! thanks for sharing and hope you keep it up and add some more informations on more posts..kitchen swagger
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