Healthy Homemade Pistachio Butter Recipe | Desserts with Benefits (2024)

Apr 28, 2012

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Homemade Pistachio Butter? What? I thought you were thePEANUT BUTTERtype??

Oh, I am. Trust me.

These pistachios were actually an impulse buy. I passed a giant bag at the grocery store and grabbed it (I think it was the packaging… it was just so pretty!).

So even though Iwas never really a fan of pistachios, I knew that they always added beautiful colors and presentation to a dish. Even though this is green, it’s gorgeous. Not to mention,incredibly delicious andamazinglyaddicting!

Yes, even to a peanut butter lover…

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Healthy Homemade Pistachio Butter

Servings: 2 cups

Ingredients

4 cups Pistachios (unsalted; you can use raw or roasted)

Instructions

In afood processor, add the pistachios. Pulse until crumbly and flour-like, then grind constantly until smooth and buttery, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed (depending on the processor you use, this could take anywhere from 5-10 minutes). Feel free to add salt to taste orsteviato sweeten.
Pour the mixture into jars, seal tightly, and refrigerate to store.

Course: Dessert

Now where can you use this healthy homemade pistachio butter?

Top your morning oatmeal with it
Spread it on toast with a drizzle of honey
Spread it on my Pistachio Cake Bars!
Reese’s Pistachio Butter Cups
Pistachio Butter Cookies (use pistachio butter instead of peanut butter, anderythritolinstead of sugar)
ChocolatePistachio Butter Cookies (same thing,justchocolatey! You can try my DIY Brown Sugar too!)
Pistachio Butter & Jelly Uncrustables— did someone say,scare the kids??
Make my green cookie dough a little more green 🙂
In any recipe that uses a nut butter
Finally, Lemon Pistachio Krispy Treats!

–Jess

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15 comments on “Healthy Homemade Pistachio Butter”

Ruby — April 28, 2012 at 3:43 pm

Delicious! Pistachios are my favorite nut, but somehow it never even crossed my mind to make a nut butter out of them! I can’t wait to try this out.

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Julie — April 28, 2012 at 10:27 pm

Yum! I can think of at least five people who would go nuts (har har) for this. I can’t wait to try it. Thank you!

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- Jessica | Desserts With Benefits — April 28, 2012 at 10:38 pm
  
  Haha! I like the pun 😉
  
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dollybob — April 29, 2012 at 12:03 am

Delicious! Just a little interesting piece of info I learned a few months back…all nuts sold in normal grocery stores are technically “cooked” (even if stated as “raw”) if they are shelled. Almonds (and possibly others) are illegal to sell unpasteurized, so 99% of almonds are cooked. Truly uncooked nuts are sold usually in health food stores or the health food section of some grocery stores by the raw vegan stuff and specially marked as unpasteurized raw nuts.
Love your website btw, I never imagined it was possible to make so many rich desserts so healthily…I’m inspired 🙂

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- Jessica | Desserts With Benefits — April 29, 2012 at 1:01 am
  
  Oh wow, I didn’t know that! Thanks for the info!
  And thanks 🙂
  By saying that YOU are the inspiring one!
  
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awwmuffin — April 29, 2012 at 12:58 am

I love this! Pistachios are my favourite nut and I’ve been waiting years for someone to sell a pistachio butter and this made me realize that I should just make it myself. Thanks!

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Rachel @ Bakerita — April 29, 2012 at 11:04 pm

Looks so good! I love homemade nut butters but have never made it with pistachios…I’ll be trying that for sure! Your photos are gorgeous btw!

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Anonymous — September 25, 2012 at 10:52 pm

Ever since I watched Gamer I have wanted pistachio butter yummy

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Kseniya — March 21, 2017 at 10:41 am

Hi there, the recipe says:
DIRECTIONS:
In a food processor, add the walnuts.
I’m sure you meant pistachios? 😉

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- Jessica | Desserts with Benefits — March 21, 2017 at 10:53 am
  
  HAHAHA!!! I think I had a little brain fart there 😉
  Thanks for letting me know!
  
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Brandon Meier — September 18, 2018 at 1:40 pm

Always do what is right and you will never be wrong. Making this pistachio butter is definitely right! The husband and kids will love it!

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