Make Your Spread: The Best Recipes

Don’t feel like stale cheese bread? We’ll show you how to make delicious spreads yourself – from sweet peanut butter to spicy mushroom paste!

Is buttered bread bland? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! With the right topping, the sandwich becomes a real treat – whether for breakfast, a picnic, or to strengthen a party. The easiest way to make blissful sandwiches is to make your spread.

You’re probably wondering why you should make the spread yourself when you can buy it in the supermarket. There are five reasons for this:

Homemade spread…

1. tastes better because you choose the ingredients yourself.
2. is healthier because it contains no additives or palm oil.
3. is significantly cheaper.
4. is also suitable for using up leftovers such as chocolate.
5. is always available, even if the supermarket is closed.

Preserve Homemade Spread

So that you can keep your homemade spread for longer, you should consider a few things when storing your pastes, creams and co.:

1. Use preserving jars with lids
2. Rinse jars hygienically with boiling water before pouring them into the spread.
3. Store the bread filling in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
4. Do not go to the spread with the used or licked knife/spoon.

Tip: After opening, most spreads keep for about two weeks. Bread toppings based on milk, egg, meat or fish should be used after 2-3 days.

Spread Recipes: Homemade Peanut Butter

You probably already have most of the ingredients you need to make your spread at home. It’s speedy if you pimp existing creams such as cream cheese, yoghurt, mascarpone, sour cream, crème fraîche or quark with a few fresh herbs and spices.

But you can also create your sandwich filling out of nothing in an almost magical way. Homemade peanut butter is an excellent example of this. For a large jar of extra creamy peanut butter, you only need these ingredients:

• 250 g roasted peanuts
• 1-2 tbsp honey or sugar
• One pinch of salt (or more to taste)

Put everything in a multi-chopper and puree for 10 minutes. You have homemade peanut butter at the touch of a button without additional oil or fat. You can see what it all looks like in the video above.

You can also find many super simple spread recipes  From sweet to savory, there is everything your heart desires when it comes to sandwiches. Most of the homemade spreads are vegan – or they can easily be adapted for vegans with soy yoghurt, plant milk, etc.

Here we can introduce you to four delicious spread recipes. So then, go for it. We wish you a lot of fun trying it out and enjoying it!

Make Your Sweet Spread: Baked Apple Cream With Raisins

A sweet spread made from baked apples and cinnamon screams Christmas and winter. Perfect for warm feelings in the cold season.

You Need These Ingredients:

For four people

• 600 g tart apples
• 3 tbsp lemon juice
• 50 grams of sugar
• ½ tsp Ceylon cinnamon powder
• 35 grams of almonds
• 30 grams of raisins
• 75g mascarpone
• 2 tsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar

Furthermore

• casserole dish
• butter for the casserole dish

How To Prepare:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Peel the apples, cut into quarters, remove the core and cut into small cubes. Mix in lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Grease a casserole dish with butter and spread the apple mixture in a single layer. Bake in the hot oven (center) for 35-40 minutes, turning several times. Then let it cool down.
2. Boil the almonds in a pot of water for 4 minutes and rinse with cold water afterwards. The almonds can then be skinned very easily. Then finely chop the almonds and roast them in a coated pan without fat. Take out and let cool.
3. Rinse the raisins in cold water in a colander and drain well, then pat dry with kitchen paper. Pour the apple mixture with 10 g almonds into a tall mixing bowl and puree finely. Stir in the remaining almonds and raisins. Allow the apple mixture to cool down, cover and chill for approx. 2 hours.
4. Mix the mascarpone with milk and vanilla sugar and fold it into the apple mixture using a fork so that it becomes marbled. Baked apple spread goes well with yeast plaited bread and toast or hearty rye bread.

Tip: If you don’t like raisins, leave them out or replace them with dried cranberries.

Hearty Spread: Smoked Trout Cream

If you like to fish, you will love this homemade spread! Due to the smoked trout fillets, the topping tastes deliciously spicy. The finely chopped apple gives the whole thing a fruity note.

You Need These Ingredients:

For four people

• One shallot
• 1 tbsp butter
• ¼ apple
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• Two sprigs of dill
• 200 g smoked trout fillets (skinless)
• 60 g crème fraîche
• 45 g horseradish cream (from a jar)
• Salt pepper

How To Prepare:

1. Peel and finely dice the shallot. Heat the butter in a small coated pan. Sauté the shallots in it until translucent, remove and leave to cool. Wash the apple, remove the core, dice finley and mix with the lemon juice. Wash the dill, shake dry and pluck the leaves from the stalks. Set aside part for garnish, and finely chop the remaining dill.
2. Mash the trout fillets finely with a fork—season with salt and pepper. Stir in the chopped dill and garnish the smoked trout cream with the remaining horseradish cream and the remaining dill. Serve with rye or sourdough bread.

Make Your Spread: Mushroom Cream

You no longer need to buy your mushroom cream in the health food store. You can make the spread yourself! Just the suitable refreshment for a long autumn walk.

You Need These Ingredients:

For four people

• 10 g dried porcini mushrooms
• 270 g brown mushrooms
• One onion
• One clove of garlic
• One sprig of rosemary
• 3 ½ tbsp olive oil
• ½ tsp Pul Biber (hot Turkish pepper flakes)
• 3 tbsp apple juice
• pepper
• 125 g double cream cheese
• Salt

How To Prepare:

1. Soak the porcini mushrooms in 125 ml of hot water for approx. Twenty minutes, then drain, drain and finely chop. Meanwhile, wash and slice the mushrooms. Peel the onion and garlic, and dice finely. Wash the rosemary, dab dry, chop the needles finely, and mix half of them with 1 ½ tbsp oil and Pul Biber.
2. Heat the remaining oil (2 tbsp) in a broad non-stick pan. Sauté mushrooms in it. Add the porcini mushrooms, onion, garlic, and remaining rosemary, and sauté for 3 minutes. Pour in the apple juice and cook, stirring, until the liquid has evaporated. Season with pepper, allow to cool and chill for approx—1 hour.
3. Drain the mushroom mixture if needed. Place in a tall mixing bowl and puree with the cream cheese. Season the mushroom cream with salt and pepper and drizzle with the rosemary oil. Oat rolls or raw vegetable sticks go well with this.

Spread Recipe: Goat Cheese Spread With Figs And Pine Nuts

Creamy goat cheese meets exotic figs and fragrant pine nuts. This spread recipe also makes vegetarians happy.

You Need These Ingredients:

For six people

• 20 grams of pine nuts
• Two spring onions
• Two sprigs of thyme
• 75 g dried soft figs
• 200 g fresh goat cheese
• 75 g crème fraîche
• 1 tsp medium-hot mustard
• 2 tbsp orange juice
• Salt pepper

How To Prepare:

1. Roast the pine nuts in a coated pan without fat until golden brown, remove and allow to cool. Cut the roots and wilted green parts off the spring onions. Wash the spring onions, and cut them into fine rings, including the green part. Wash the thyme, shake dry, pluck off the leaves, set aside a small amount and finely chop the rest. Dice the figs.
2. Mix the goat’s cream cheese, crème fraîche, mustard, orange juice and chopped thyme in a mixing bowl with the whisk on a hand mixer until creamy. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside 1 tsp each of the pine nuts, spring onions and figs and stir the leftovers into the cream cheese mixture.
3. Garnish the spread with the reserved pine nuts, spring onion rings, diced figs and thyme leaves. It was served with toasted white bread.

ALSO READ: FOUR SIMPLE CAKES: RECIPES WITH GUARANTEED SUCCESS!