Almond Butter

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• Breakfast and brunch dishes. For super-decadent French toast, make almond butter and jam sandwiches then dip them in a mixture of egg and milk before cooking on the griddle.
• Use it to thicken and flavor smoothies, as star chef and avid runner Nate Appleman does in his favorite strawberry and banana blend.
• Dips. To switch up your basic hummus, blend almond butter into the dip in place of tahini.
• Or make easy smoked-almond butter in a food processor, and serve it with apple slices as an hors d'oeuvre.
• Dressings and sauces. Whisk almond butter into a basic vinaigrette to dress sturdy vegetables like carrots, kale and cabbage.
• Make a nutty pesto by adding almond butter to chopped herbs, garlic and grated cheese, without bringing out your food processor Or blend it with dried chiles, garlic, vinegar and pumpkin seeds for a fast version of pipián, a Mexican sauce.
• Soups. Stir it into pureed soups for extra protein; the almond flavor is especially nice with orange vegetables, like butternut squash, carrots and sweet potatoes.