How to Make Almond Flour - Swasthi's Recipes (2024)

Making Almond Flour at home is easier with this simple step-by-step guide. Homemade Almond Flour is so much cheaper and fresher than your store bought flour. There are 2 ways you can make Almond Flour at home. One way is to start from scratch with whole almonds (with their skin intact). The other one is to make with store bought blanched almonds or silvered almonds.

In the first method we blanch the whole almonds first, then dry them well to remove any traces of moisture. Lastly grind them to flour in a grinder. The second method just needs to add the blanched or silvered almonds to a grinder & pulse them to get fine flour.

The main difference between the 2 is that we need to blanch almonds at home for the first method. Though it takes some time, this method yields better almond flour which smells fresher. Since blanching is easier I prefer to follow this method.

Sometimes store bought blanched or silvered almonds end up being rancid as they have a limited shelf life. So for best quality flour start with whole almonds with their skin intact.

I use a lot of this flour in my bakes and sweets like Badam burfi, Badam halwa and Almond kheer. Though it is easily available in any grocery and food stores, I have made this for many years from scratch to make my toddlers’ cereals, drinks and porridge.

This post comes handy for those of you who are not accessible to store bought almond flour. Here is a quick conversion of whole almonds to flour:

Almonds to Almond Flour conversion

1.5 cups almonds yield 2 cups plus one tablespoon of almond flour. To make 1 cup of flour , use 3/4 cup almonds.

How to make Almond Flour (Stepwise Photos)

1. Bring water to a rapid boil in a large wide pan and off the stove.

2. Add almonds to the boiling water, spread them evenly. Leave them in the water just for one to 2 minutes.

3. Drain them off in a colander, rinse under clean running water.

4. Drain them again. Spread them on a cloth. You see the skin would have been loose now.

5. Peel off the skins. They just come out without much effort. Pat them dry with the dry side of the napkin.

Toast almonds and grind

6. Transfer these to the wide pan, make sure the pan is dry. Dry roast them on a medium flame till they look moist free or dry. Do not discolor them. It took about 5 minutes for me to toast. Cool completely. If you want you can also simply sun dry or dry them in your air fryer or oven on a very low heat.

7. Add to a dry grinder jar. I use a Indian grinder that comes with a steel jar.

8. Pulse them in intervals of 30 to 40 seconds, so they don’t release oil. Do not let the grinder become hot or warm as the almonds will begin to release oil immediately. If you want almond meal grind to a coarser meal and to make flour grind it finer. If you want you may sieve it.

Store in an air tight jar and refrigerate if you stay in a high humid climate.

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This recipe was first published in 2012 July. Updated and republished in August 2023.