Making your own DIY Marmite Peanut Butter

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OK I know this isn't for everybody but one of my fave spreads for my homemade bread at the moment is Marmite Peanut Butter. Though it is a tad pricey at £2.50 for a 225g pot.

So looking at the ingredients it's 87% peanut butter and 9.5% yeast extract. So I've tried nixing the two but it's just too viscous and doesn't result in the smooth original product. Has anybody got any suggestions as to how to make it DIY stylee. I have googled away but it doesn't look like anybody has attempted this gastronomic combo at home just yet.

I reckon a homemade version could come in at around a quid and for real hard core fans could up the marmite content for a real kick !

www.standard.co.uk/reveller/foodanddrink/marmite-peanut-butter-taste-test-a4107581.html

Maybe gently heat them?

What is the "missing" 3.5%?

Thanks for the tip. Peanut oil,antoxidant and vits. So it's probably peanut oil.

You might need a bit of oil maybe. Or a runnier peanut butter (I found Pip n Nut really runny!).

I spread marmite on toast, then spread peanut butter on top. Badabing.

I just spread marmite on top of peanut butter like I do butter. But I use the powder which is easier to handle. Have you tried blending with pb fit? Or too fake?

The danger is I could tip over into the Marmite dark side - the combo is just so addictive for some reason. Probably the inherently high levels of salt.

Marmite was banned in Denmark before apparently because of high levels of Vitamin A.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-13544886

Yes have done the double spread but it means two spreads on the go with the possibility of cross-contamination which reminds me of John Shuttleworth's two margarines nightmare.

As someone who can't stand peanut butter, but who eats Marmite PB every day, I reckon it would be almost impossible to recreate. I think the texture is completely different from PB.

It separates in the jar, which means it doesn't have palm oil in it (as confirmed by the ingredient list), so at the very least you'd need a palm-oil free PB like Meridian, and then you're in the realms of expensive PB, so you may as well just buy the real version.

I have a feeling the Marmite PB uses some kind of powdered marmite, so it's not just a mix of the 2 jars in your cupboard.

I'd buy the real thing and use more sparingly. The smooth one goes a lot further than crunchy, so that's more cost effective.

I didn't know marmite powder was even a thing but thanks for the tip as a marmite rabbit hole has just opened up.

msmarmitelover.com/2011/04/how-to-make-your-own-marmite.html

@ReviewingTheSituation - you're probably right though there's a challenge for a budding Breaking Bad home cook.

I love it and have been known to eat it straight out of the jar with a spoon, but it is getting harder to find in my local supermarkets so I make a version by combining Whole Earth crunchy peanut butter with 15% Marmite. This makes a consistency that is thicker than the genuine product, so I thin it to the desired consistency with groundnut oil.

With regards to the Marmite peanut butter recipe. I got it very close. Get a 500g pot of Sunpat Crunchy Peanut butter. Take out 2heaped desert spoonfulls and put aside. Decant the rest of the jar into a bowl and add 1 heaped desert spoonfuls of marmite. Then add 50ml of peanut oil and mix well. Continue to add peanut oil until you achieve the consistency you require then put back in the pot. Lick the Bowl round and enjoy

Dont know if this will help, but lidl do a peanut butter which is just nuts, no oils, and is so runny I have to keep it in the fridge - would that work?

Just found your post 😄. Now that MPB is discontinued I thought I would try and make it. Mixed 75% runny Whole Earth PB with 15% Vegemite Squeezy but it went solid, I just spread each on different slices of toast and put the 2 together now!

Adding Marmite to peanut butter makes it thicken, this is why I add groundnut oil to thin it out. I can get it to the same consistency as the genuine thing.