Hazelnut butter

I  bought hazelnuts and hazelnut oil to make home made nutella (I dont buy Nutella), I did hazelnut cupcakes too with hazelnut oil and this time I tried hazelnut butter. You can avoid hazelnut oil or use any non flavour oil to make this butter. It super easy too, hardly take 10 mins and a very healthy butter is ready as a spread!

Ingredients
Hazelnuts - 100 gms
Hazel nut oil - 1 - 2 tspn

Honey - as required

Vanilla pod - half of  pod

Method
Take a thick bottom pan and dry roast the nuts for sometime, just enough to heat it and then put it in a mixie jar or a blender or a food processor. Pulse it until it starts releasing oil. Scrape in the vanilla pod and also add the oil. Finally add honey as a sweetener. If you want exclusive hazelnut butter stop with oil , don't add vanilla or honey :). If you add cocoa or scraped chocolate nd replace honey with sugar you get nutella.

And yea 'keep refrigerated'
So try and enjoy!!

Cucumber and pomegranate salad in hazelnut oil and orange juice dressing

This is a very fresh, healthy and tasty salad which is made in no time. You could watch this video to  learn a new technique of de-seeding a pomegranate, and if you already know and use the technique, very good  for you.

Ingredients for the salad
Cucumber - 3 medium size ones
Pomegranate- 1 large
Herbs (Mint leaves or coriander leaves) - 1/4 cup
Lemon juice - 3 tbspn
Orange juice - 1/2 cup
Paprika - a pinch
Tobasco sauce - 2 tspns
Hazelnut oil - 2 tbspns
Salt and pepper - for seasoning

Arrange the vegetables and fruits in a plate.
Whisk together the rest of the ingredients and oil until emulsified. Pour over the salad just before serving. 
Enjoy!!