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Ever wondered how to make homemade nut flour? From almond meal to almond flour, hazelnut meal and even cashew meal, this step-by-step tutorial will teach you how! Stop paying for overpriced almond meal, almond flour and other nut flours make make cheap almond flour and the likes at home!

Ever wondered how to make your own nut flours? From almond meal to almond flour, hazelnut meal and even cashew meal, this step-by-step tutorial will teach you how!
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If you’re a THM regular then you know how much I love my nut flours. And apparently you love them too! When I asked you guys what type of tutorial you wanted to see here, it was a resounding request for diy nut flours. My guess is because nut flours can be insanely expensive to buy but also make great grain-free substitutes in baking.

So today I’m walking you through the process on how to make nut flours at home using your blender. It literally takes 10 seconds and while the nuts themselves certainly aren’t cheap, it’s substantially cheaper than the jacked-up prices you often see for nut flours in stores. But first, let’s chat about nut flour…

What is nut flour?

Nut flour is essentially ground up nuts that can be used in place of wheat or types of gluten-free flours. Sometimes it is a 1-to-1 replacement ratio but oftentimes less nut flour is needed since it tends to be more dense. It’s flavor tends to be a bit sweeter and earthier than traditional wheat flour.

Technically if the skin is still on the nut it is considered a “meal” rather than flour, but a kitchen hack to make almond flour (rather than almond meal) is to just buy slivered or sliced blanched almonds and grind those! So much easier and cheaper than buying almond flour or blanching the almonds yourself.

Nut flour isn’t just almond meal or almond flour. It can include any nut. Today I’m also showing you how to make cashew meal and hazelnut meal both of which make an awesome low-carb and grain-free substitute to standard grain flours. Even better, they tend to be higher in protein and nutrients than traditional grain-based flour.

Ever wondered how to make your own nut flours? From almond meal to almond flour, hazelnut meal and even cashew meal, this step-by-step tutorial will teach you how!

How to Make Nut Flour

The process is actually fairly simple. All you need are two ingredients:

  • Nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, cashews)
  • High speed blender (a food processor works too though not as well)

The biggest thing you want to lookout for is not over-processing the nuts. If you blend for too long they will become creamy and turn into almond/hazelnut/cashew butter. You’re likely only going to need to blend for 10-15 seconds maximum unless your blender is not the greatest. Just pulse a few extra times if your flour is almost there but not quite.

How long do nut flours last? Store them in the fridge in an airtight container or glass jars to last for several months.

Here are the directions with some delicious recipes below! Enjoy.

To Make Almond Meal:

Place almonds in blender and blend on high for 10 seconds or just until almonds are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency.

To Make Almond Flour:

Place blanched almonds in blender and blend on high for 10 seconds or just until almonds are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency

To Make Cashew Flour:

Place cashews in blender and blend on high for 8 seconds or just until cashews are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency

To Make Hazelnut Meal:

Place hazelnuts in blender and blend on high for 12 seconds or just until hazelnuts are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency

*hazelnut meal is different from hazelnut flour. To make hazelnut flour you’ll need to remove the skins from all hazelnuts before blending.

NOTE: You can also make walnut flour and pecan flour but both tend to break down very quickly and can easily turn into walnut or pecan butter quickly, so I’d recommend pulsing for 1 second at a time until desired consistency is reached.

Wondering what to do with all this flour? Here are some delicious recipes from The Healthy Maven:

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Ever wondered how to make homemade nut flours? From almond meal to almond flour, hazelnut meal and even cashew meal, this step-by-step tutorial will teach you how! Stop paying for overpriced almond meal, almond flour and other nut flours make make cheap almond flour and the likes at home!

  • Author: Davida Lederle
  • Prep Time: 0 minutes
  • Cook Time: 2 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 minutes
  • Yield: 2 cups nut flour 1x

Ingredients

Scale

For Almond Meal:

For Almond Flour:

For Cashew Flour:

For Hazelnut Meal:

Instructions

For Almond Meal:

  1. Place almonds in blender and blend on high for 10 seconds or just until almonds are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency.

For Almond Flour:

  1. Place blanched almonds in blender and blend on high for 10 seconds or just until almonds are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency

For Cashew Flour:

  1. Place cashews in blender and blend on high for 8 seconds or just until cashews are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency

For Hazelnut Meal:

  1. Place hazelnuts in blender and blend on high for 12 seconds or just until hazelnuts are broken up but do not blend for long enough that they become “butter-like” consistency

*Times will vary by blender. I use a Blendtec Designer Series. You can use a food processor but I find you get a better texture with a blender. If using a food processor you’ll want to process for slightly longer than the blender.

Ever wondered how to make your own nut flours? From almond meal to almond flour, hazelnut meal and even cashew meal, this step-by-step tutorial will teach you how!

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46 Comments

  1. Greetings! In an effort to make pancakes my husband would eat, I proceeded to make almond meal, peanut flour, walnut meal, and pecan meal. All but the almonds turned to paste~ which not being one to waste a good thing have added to the recipe so please say a prayer they turn out alright. Almonds appear to be the soul winner for meal/flour. The others are too fatty to make anything other than nice spread for banana sandwiches. 🙂

  2. Hi, so is almond meal and almond flour one and the same with the exception of the skins and can therefore be used in recipes where it calls for one or the other?
    Thanks in advance!

  3. I was wondering if there was any way to get it as fine as the Sunkrin peanut flour ? Because I often use food processor to make my own nut butter, but doesn’t quite come out as finely ground as that.

  4. OMG! Thank you sooo much for all of this information. Was trying to track down almond flour and discovered how expensive it was. Now I can make my own for half the price and its so easy. I cannot thank you enough. Finding all of this info will make baking so much more fun for myself and the kids.

    1. too fatty- turns into butter. Unsure if perhaps you toasted them if that might mitigate some of the fats~ you could test it, and then have a banana handy to test the final product. 🙂

  5. Great guide! Does the blended product need to be run through a sifter to separate the smallest pieces? Or is it good as flour as is?