Homemade cashew butter in the Froothie Optimum 9400 blender*, used to enrich a creamy vegan and gluten free overnight oats breakfast dish.
*gifted
In December us bloggers and many food focussed websites were flogging you sugary treats, indulgences and 1000’s of Christmas recipes. In January, the tables have turned and now its all about resolutions and detoxes. It’s hard to have your own voice amongst all of that so today I’m going to share with you something that I eat all year round. It is of course a healthy recipe, but since that’s what this blog is all about I think that’s OK!
This recipe pretty much fits into the category of ‘this is what I really eat’. All too often over the last year I’ve had to be in one corner of London at an ungodly hour of the morning, or have had to go straight to my place of work from my yoga studio, and this poses a bit of a breakfast problem. In yesteryear when I was an office girl this wasn’t a problem. I’d happily enjoy porridge or scrambled eggs made in the office microwave, or my packed breakfast of hardboiled eggs and veg. Now, I’ve no office kitchen to whip up a meal, and being sure that eating smelly hard boiled eggs on the tube is a criminal offence, I have been making overnight oats in a jar to eat on the tube. Sometimes I add a grated apple or pear and yoghurt into the mix and this becomes more of a bircher muesli, but most often I just add dairy free almond milk and some seeds as they are fridge staples for me (yep you should keep your seeds in the fridge), then some fresh fruit on top.
The oats become lovely and creamy when they are soaked, and the chia seeds expand to thicken this up to a satisfying portion. I don’t often jump on the superfood nutribabble health bandwagon that is chia seeds, because; a) I think they are overrated – most seeds are a wonderful source of nutrition, b) I don’t like them on their own as when swelled they are like frogspawn and c) they are imported from South America (not very local, and yes I realise my own irony as my passionfruit isn’t either). But, variety is good and I’m learning to deal with them in oats as the frogspawn texture is mostly hidden by the oats.
The most exciting part of this recipe is that I made the cashew butter myself. I have recently become an Ambassador for Froothie UK, and used my new Optimum 9400 high speed blender to make the butter.
Froothie Optimum 9400 Blender
I have never owned a blender as powerful as this before, yet have used models by various competitors as part of my training and recent work. I’ve always wanted to be able to make my own nut butters and so this had to be the thing I tried first. My first attempt wasn’t brilliant (in action above). I only had 200g cashews in the blender, so the tamper stick which is required to help the cashews move around could barely prod them. I also tried coconut oil and desiccated coconut as added flavours, which did taste great but the butter became too stiff when it set (because coconut is a saturated fat). So, after some advice from team Froothie I opted for walnut oil because it wont’ solidify. You could opt for other monounsaturated / polyunsaturated nut oils too. Macadamia nut would be wonderful if a little pricey. My only advice is go easy on this stuff; 1 tablespoon has around 90 calories, which is fine, but moderation is everything!
Scraping the nut butter out of the blender jug takes a bit of persistence, but is well worth the effort. If you can’t get it all out do as I did – leave it in there, add some almond milk a tablespoon of cocoa powder and a touch of sweetener such as honey then blend again. Decadent chocolate milk and dislodged cashew butter in no time!
So far, I am hugely impressed by the machine, it certainly looks good on my counter and has blended everything I have thrown in it with ease. I’m looking forward to trying other recipes and in particular restaurant quality silky soup soon.
Homemade Cashew Butter made in the Froothie 9400
The blender retails at around £399, and is currently on offer for £299. This is understandably a great deal more than a cheap hand or jug blender, but considering its technical prowess and the price of its competitors it is, I think, very conservatively priced.
For more info check out their website.
If you want to make these oats and don’t have your own high powdered blender shop bought cashew butter will work just as well.
- 3 Tbs walnut oil
- 1 Tbs vanilla extract
- 400g cashew nuts
- 80g oats (choose gluten free if you need)
- 1 Tbs chia seeds
- 250mls almond milk + 2 Tbs in the morning
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 Tbs cashew butterFresh fruit top top: I used pink grapefruit, passion fruit and lime zest
- First make up your butter. Put the oil and vanilla in the bottom of the blender, then add the cashew nuts. Blend the nuts on low, then move to high speed using the tamper stick to help push the nuts into the blades. After 1 minute, stop and scrap down the sides. Do this again another 2 times, continuing all the while to use the tamper stick. The cashew butter will be soft and paste like when done. Scrape out and transfer to a glass jar to be stored in the fridge.
- The night before, In a glass bowl or 2 individual jars combine the oats with the chia seeds, then pour over the almond milk and add the lemon juice. Next stir through the cashew butter to ensure it is evenly distributed. Cover and leave overnight at room temperature.
- In the morning, you may want to loosen up the oats with additional milk depending on how your oats and chia have absorbed the liquid. Top with fruit and eat!
- Will keep in the fridge for a few days.
Now to work out what to do with the rest of my batch of nut butter, and eating it straight up out of the jar is not allowed! These Cashew coffee biscuits on Kellie’s Food to Glow / Cashew butter biscuits on Kavey Eats / Raw banoffee pie from Nadia’s Healthy Kitchen all look a great start.
Disclosure: I am now an ambassador for Froothie and some links in this article may be affiliate links. The above product reviews is, as always based on my honest opinion. If you’d like to know more about Froothie health products, or this machine in particular, please visit the Froothie Website for more details. Any purchases made through this/these link(s) are at no extra cost to you but give Natural Kitchen Adventures a small commission. Thanks!
I have never made cashew butter, must be fab spread on toast in the mornings. I am always on the look for something new for my kids to have for breakfast. Love this.
I have read your article on the Times. Well done you!
Oh cashew is my favourite nut butter – dangerously so! I can’t wait to try it spread on things like toast! Thanks so much Alida, hope you liked the article 🙂
Cashew nut butter is my favourite nut butter too. Well done on making your own. I’ve only tried making a chocolate cashew nut version, which was very nice, but not quite a butter. I was hoping if I soaked the nuts overnight, I wouldn’t need to add any additional oil – time will tell!
Its because its so creamy right? Thanks Choclette Cashew and chocolate is a winning combination too so you def got that bit right. I usually soak (and rinse well) my nuts when making cashew cheese, so I’m sure the same would work here!
I love my Froothie. I find I use it everyday as long as it sits on the counter. I tend to use it for more liquid things though as I got very frustrated getting butters and hummuses out of the bottom. I do rather like your tip of adding a little milk to get the nut butter out though.
I’m totally loving mine too. I don’t drink smoothies but finding a tonne of other reasons to use it already. I can imagine the frustration of loosing hummus to the blades though – tough!
Cashew butter is my favourite nut butter! I love overnight oats, and make them everyday to take with me to work and always add chia as well 🙂 The blender is amazing, it’s the most powerful blender that I ever had!
I think its the favourite of many! I’d thrilled that a week later I haven’t managed to eat it all. Great that you find overnight oats so useful too!
This looks super tasty, I adore cashews – love that you made your own butter! That looks like a great kitchen gadget!
Thanks Isabella. I can tell there are lots of cashew fans out there – its the creaminess I tell ya!
I love overnight oats. It’s the most convenient breakfast ever! and the flavour combination possibilities are endless, which is why I think I could never get bored of it 🙂
Oh I’m totally with you, I look forward to exploring more flavour combinations as the days go by!
The Froothie blender sure beats that crazy blender that I couldn’t work out at the book shoot haha.
Cashew butter is hands down my favourite butter ever. I could just eat it with a spoon, and I do!
The less said about crazy blenders that are broken by soft bananas and mango the better! Froothie would win right over! Another nut butter from jar fan I hear…:)
Cashew butter is one of may favourite nut butters (toasted sesame seed is another) and I love being able to make it much more cheaply in my Froothie. I find that it all works better if I make a biggish batch and use warm nuts and warmed oil. I find I use less oil if everything is warm. As for your overnight oats, I’ve never done them as I’ve not needed to but I like your combination of ingredients – perfect fuel for a busy day. And Tube friendly. 🙂 PS Thanks for linking to my coffee cashew cookies. I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about them from nutrition groups and readers.
If I had to choose between cashew and tahini, I still think I’d choose tahini! I will have to try a version of that next. Thanks so much for your tips on warm oil and nuts very helpful! Never needed to make overnight oats? I am jealous of your morning routine ;). I shall look forward to trying your cookies soon!
I have beeen making over night oats recently, love them! You have definitely persuaded me to try out cashew butter in my Froothie now, so many positive comments on this post I cannot resist trying it!
Love that you love them too. Good luck with the nut butter and getting it the consistency you want!!