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Homemade almond flour

March 17, 2015 by Ania - 26

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homemade almond flour

When you make almond milk at home, you end up with A LOT of almond pulp as a by-product! Before you reach for the bin, hang on a second – did you know could put it to a very good use and make your own almond flour? Given that almonds are rather expensive it’s a great move as you’ll have two homemade products for the price of one.

So to make your own almond meal, you need an oven tray, an oven and at least a blender or a coffee/nut grinder would be even better. In my experience, a coffee/nut grinder will give you best results – you’ll end up with a fine powder, which is very close in texture to shop-bought almond meal.

A blender will give you a slightly coarser mix, but still fine enough to be able to use the flour in cookies (such as these), pancakes and cakes.

To save myself some work, I dry out wet almond pulp in the oven on the same day as I make my milk (or else it will go bad) and then store it in an airtight container. I do a batch grinding session once I’ve made my milk several times.

PS: If you make my homemade almond flour, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram as @lazycatkitchen and use the #lazycatkitchen hashtag. I love seeing your takes on my recipes!

almond milk byproduct

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  • makes: 2 cups
  • prep: 15 min
  • cooking: 60 min

Ingredients

  • 2 cups wet almond pulp

Method

  1. Preheat your oven to 100° C / 210° F.
  2. Spread wet almond pulp on a lined baking tray and put into the oven for about 1-1.5 hours (until the mixture is completely dry to the touch). Every half an hour, stir the mixture with a spoon to make sure that it dries out evenly. Don’t worry if there are any odd lumps, they will go during grinding phase.
  3. Put dried out pulp into a nut/coffee grinder or a clean blender and process until it has been ground finely.
  4. Store in a cupboard, in an airtight container.
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  1. Jodie says

    November 10, 2016 at 12:42 am

    Hi Ania, this is a great idea as I hate waste and KNEW there must be away to use that almond pulp I often throw away. I will be making those almond biscuits very soon, yummy 🙂

    P.S I love your recipes. I have made quite a few already. Thanks for sharing! You’re a very talented lady.

    Reply
    • Ania says

      November 10, 2016 at 3:39 pm

      Aw, thanks so much for your kind words, Jodie! You made my day and hope you’ll like the biscuits! I feel exactly the same about waste, btw. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Effie J. Sorg says

    June 5, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    Thanks for such a great idea. This proves to be very useful.

    Reply
    • Ania says

      June 5, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      Thanks so much, so glad to hear that 🙂 Ania

      Reply
  3. Suzi says

    August 5, 2017 at 4:49 am

    Hello,

    I’ve made the almond meal recently and it’s great in so many recipes. I do have a question about a bread roll recipe I love… when I use homemade meal vs store bought, the rolls are more dense, dry and smaller. Could this be because store bought uses the whole almond and therefore has more moisture than homemade using just the pulp? Should I try reducing the amount of homemade meal in the recipe to see if it works better? Any advice would be great.
    Thanks, Suzi.

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    • Ania says

      August 5, 2017 at 10:27 am

      Hi Suzi,

      Yes, I reckon you hit the nail on the head! It’s probably because some of the fatty liquid has gone into the almond milk. These days, I don’t dry my almond pulp out before using as all dough recipes call for some sort of liquid and then I compensate by using a bit less liquid than I would normally. It might also be a good idea to up the fat content (by say 1 tbsp to start) to compensate for the fat that has gone to into the almond milk. Hope that helps a little. Ania

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      • Angela Jones says

        August 30, 2017 at 1:57 pm

        How do you store it and how long does it keep if you don’t dry it? Do you still grind it?

        Reply
        • Ania says

          August 30, 2017 at 2:04 pm

          Hi Angela,

          I store it in a air-tight jar. If you don’t dry it out, it will probably keep for a few days (3 max, I imagine) in the fridge but after that time it will start going mouldy. You could try freezing it instead but I haven’t myself. Hope that helps. Ania

          Reply
  4. Morgan says

    October 19, 2017 at 5:09 am

    Hi, thanks for this info. How long does the dried almond flour last? And should it be refrigerated? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Ania says

      October 19, 2017 at 10:49 am

      Hi Morgan,

      I would treat it like a regular almond flour, store in it in a dark and dry place, in an air-tight container. Ania

      Reply
  5. rashmi a says

    October 5, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    Hi. When I make dry the almond pulp, the flour that I get from it is very dry. Any comments?

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    • Ania says

      October 5, 2018 at 8:51 pm

      Hi, reduce the drying temperature or the duration of drying time, but it will always be drier than shop bought almond meal as most of the fat has already been extracted when making almond milk. Hope that helps! Ania

      Reply
  6. Alison Harris says

    October 26, 2018 at 4:39 pm

    Is there protein in the almond flour or did it all go into the milk?

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    • Ania says

      October 26, 2018 at 5:32 pm

      I’m sorry to say, but I have no idea! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Mary says

    November 15, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    How long does the fry flour last in the air tight container?

    Reply
    • Ania says

      November 16, 2018 at 12:24 am

      A few weeks if it’s been properly dried out. Hope that helps! Ania

      Reply
  8. Kathryn says

    January 26, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    I absolutely love that you posted this… for so long I didn’t know what to do with my leftover almond pulp and was just throwing it in the compost bin! Now, I don’t have to buy almond flour anymore :)))

    One question, I find that any recipes I use this almond flour with turn out a bit dry, is that because I already took all the moisture out of it making the almond milk? And how would you combat this problem? Thanks so much in advance:))

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    • Ania says

      January 27, 2019 at 2:10 pm

      Hi Kathryn,

      That’s great, I am so happy you found this useful. I have stopped making almond milk the moment I moved back from Greece (it was hard to get good almond milk there and it was very expensive) so I haven’t baked with almond pulp for a while, but yes, in the process of making milk, you essentially extract some of the natural fats and moisture so I would just add a touch more moisture and maybe a spoonful of extra fat to compensate.

      Reply
  9. Maroula says

    February 6, 2019 at 8:47 am

    Hi Ania
    Just wondering if you know….
    On some recipes on some blogs they call for almond flour but when I watch the video it actually looks like almond meal…
    I thought almond flour is exactly what you have showed…. but now I’m confused….. ‘normal’ flour doesn’t contain fat so why should almond flour ??🤷‍♀️

    Reply
    • Ania says

      February 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm

      Hi Maroula,

      I guess because almond flour is not really a flour, it’s finely ground up almonds, which contain fat naturally. This waste reducing hack works quite well as almond flour in muffins and cakes, I would not use it to make specialised things like macaroons for example. Plus, you will never be able to get it as finely ground as the one you buy in shops. Hope that helps! Ania

      Reply
  10. Romy says

    May 18, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    Greetings from germany!

    I‘ wondering why my almondflour is every time wet or oily or both when i blend my almonds in my blender.I looked at the internet and i found your blog. That‘s what i thought. Now, 400 grams of blended almonds are now in the oven 🙂 Try to make flour drier. Hope, my next receipes would be better with that method. Almond flour is also more expensive here in germany, as natural almonds. Sorry, for my funny english. Hope, you understand.

    Romy :o)

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    • Ania says

      May 18, 2019 at 7:43 pm

      Hi Romy,

      I understand totally, I used to live in Greece where almond flour was very expensive too so I had to make my own. I hope you’ll be pleased with this ‘hack’ x Ania

      Reply
  11. Carrie says

    June 23, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    Making my first batch today

    Reply
    • Ania says

      June 23, 2020 at 9:59 pm

      Great, I hope you’ll find it useful!

      Reply
  12. Emma says

    January 18, 2021 at 2:22 pm

    So does this have a decent shelf life? i don’t know if i’ll use almond flour very much (not at all yet)

    Reply
    • Ania says

      January 18, 2021 at 3:08 pm

      It should keep for several weeks in an air-tight jar, ideally in the fridge – which will minimise the risk of it going rancid. hope this helps! Ania

      Reply

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