Home-Made Peanut Butter

My daughter and I love peanut butter. My husband just likes it.
I still remember all those times, while still at school, I used to get hungry for a snack and peanut butter (no jam/ jelly) on thick slices of soft, crusty bread was my favorite.
I used to find it very difficult to find peanut butter in India for a long time. Now it is available in plenty on the supermarket shelves, in both imported and locally made versions. But the manufacturers seem to think that peanut butter is some exotic or gourmet food item given the prices at which they sell it out here! This is a bit of a joke considering that India grows peanuts (or groundnuts as we call them here) in plenty.
So I make peanut butter at home. This means we have peanut butter whenever we want it, without the excessive salt and fat (and preservatives) of the store-bought varieties and without draining my purse.

Ingredients:
½ kg shelled and roasted peanuts
2 tsps sugar
3 tbsps oil
1 tsp salt approx. (or to taste; I prefer less salt)

Method:
Run the peanuts in the food processor till the peanuts are broken into small bits. If you like chunky peanut butter, remove about ½ a cup and keep aside before going further. I prefer a smoother peanut butter without large bits of peanuts to bite into.
Now add the sugar, salt and about 2 tbsps of the oil. Run the mixture in the food processor, adding the remaining 1 tbsp oil, until everything comes together in a buttery mass. Add the peanut bits which were kept aside and run the processor a couple of times till everything is uniformly mixed. Bottle and refrigerate.

You can make this in a mixer/ grinder jar, too.
Peanuts contain oil and the amount of oil in them differs depending on the peanut variety. So after the initial 2 tbsps of oil, adding the remaining 1 tbsp oil , ensures that you need to add only as much oil as necessary to get a spreading consistency. You may not need that last 1 tbsp oil at all!