Paleo Pecan Butter

My parents front yard has like 14 pecan trees in it and this past fall was a great year for pecans.  Great harvest come about every 7 years and last year was one of them.  Last summer tree limbs were breaking everyday because of the weight of pecans.

This is what my parents garage looks like... (You could call my mom the "Nut Lady")

The baskets underneath are also full of pecans

I've seen blog posts about how easy it is to make your own almond butter so I wondered if it would apply to pecans.  Pecans are expensive in the store so maybe thats why there isn't a lot of pecan butter recipes.  When you have an abundance of pecans for free what to do with them??? Make pecan butter!

I recently bought a food processor and it has made my life so much easier! I use to hand shred everything and the first time I used the shredding tool on my food processor I was in heaven!! ITS AMAZING!! So I couldn't wait to use my new tool to make the nut butter!



Ingredients:
2 Cups of raw pecans
Pinch of sea salt
Pinch of cinnamon

Directions:

1) Toast pecans in a pan until they are fragrant about 4-5min over med/high heat.

2) Toss into food processor with cinnamon and sea salt and blend on high. I stopped every few minutes to scrape the sides.  Blend until smooth and creamy.  Took me about 10 minutes.

3. Whala! You have Pecan Butter. Just scoop out the pecan butter into a container and enjoy.

I ate spoonfuls all week.  I also stored it in the fridge, not sure if you need to but thats what I did.