How To Make Almond Meal Recipes

HOW TO MAKE ALMOND MEAL

Steps:

• Add almonds (1 cup) to a very dry food processor or blender.
• Secure the lid. Pulse the almonds using 1-second intervals, 20 times.
• Remove the lid and use a spatula to clean the sides and under the blade to ensure all the nuts get processed.
• Repeat steps 2-3 as many times as you would like, until your almond meal is the grain size you're looking for - I usually do this process 4-5 times.
• If you're looking for a finer grain size, place almond meal through a mesh strainer, and continue to process any almonds that were not fine enough to pass through the strainer.
• Store in the fridge, and enjoy!

HOW TO MAKE ALMOND MEAL

Steps:

• Add almonds to a high-speed blender and blend on high until a fine, powdery flour is achieved. We recommend turning the blender on the highest setting for 5-10 seconds. Then stop, shake the blender, and hit the sides to shake loose any clumps that have formed. Blend again until fine and powdery - all in all about 10-15 seconds of blending. You'll know you've gone too far if it starts turning to almond butter or clumping up on the sides.
• Check your blender for bits of nuts and continue blending, occasionally removing your blender from the base and shaking to ensure all nuts are well blended.
• Transfer to a jar or container and store up to 1 month unrefrigerated, often longer. See notes for recipe suggestions.

ALMOND FLOUR

Steps:

• Place almonds, about 1/4 cup at a time, in the food processor. Pulse until you reach a flour-like consistency; sift into a container. Place any remaining almonds chunks back into food processor and pulse. Repeat until all almonds are transformed into flour. Cover container and store flour in refrigerator.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN ALMOND MEAL & ALMOND FLOUR

Steps:

• For ALMOND FLOUR, you first must blanch the almonds by boiling about 3 cups of water then soaking the almonds in it for 1-2 minutes. Rub the skins off with a dishcloth or squishing the almonds out of the skins by hand.
• Dry the almonds off or let them air dry-- water will turn those babies into almond butter!
• You need a really strong food processor blades for grinding and chopping to do this-- but be careful with this step! If the almonds are ground too hard and too consistently, you will end up with almond butter.
• Thus, the best thing to do is to use the pulse, not consistent run, on the processor until the almonds are ground up but make sure they don't release too much oil. If it looks like that, let the mixture rest for a minute or two before continuing to grind the almonds.
• Empty the unit's contents into an airtight container. Stir with a fork or small whisk to remove any oil dispersion or lumps.
• For best storage, keep refridgerated. Why? At room temp, unlike grain flours like regular all-purpose, oat, and barley flours, almond flour quickly absorbs flavors and odors its surrounded by. Almond flour is good for fine applications like cookies, cakes, breads, and as a gluten-free and wheat-free thickening agent.
• ALMOND MEAL: Follow the same instructions listed above-- except you don't blanch the almonds! Almond meal is better for coarser applications such as breading on tofu and fish, cookie garnish, etc.

ALMOND FLOUR BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, whisk almond flour, chia seeds, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk eggs, almond milk and melted butter; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Pour into a parchment-lined 8x4-in. loaf pan., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and top is golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely.