Today we’re going to talk about an extremely simple recipe that will be essential for cooking many other cannabis meals; Cannabutter, or cannabis butter, is the perfect alternative for those that wish to consume cannabis without having to smoke or vape it. This can be used for both medicinal and recreational purposes; whether you’re medicating or simply want to give your meals that extra kick, cannabutter is the perfect thing to add.
Cannabutter Recipe – Step by Step
Cannabutter is one of the most prepared recipes by food lovers looking for the effects that THC produces. This product is similar to regular butter, except that cannabutter has gone through a process to absorb different cannabinoids or compounds often found in cannabis plants.
As we always stress in these recipes, you need to consume edibles responsibly; when you ingest cannabis you’re truly ingesting all of it, whereas when you smoke it you’re only absorbing a 40% of the full amount of cannabinoids available. This can cause much too intense of an effect, so it is better to start with a low dosage to gradually increase it.
Below, we’ll explain how to prepare this incredibly simple recipe step by step.
Ingredients
- 250 g of butter
- 50 ml of water
- 15g of resinous leaves or 5 g of cannabis flowers
Apart from the flowers, we can also use resinous leaves (or both flowers and leaves) to prepare our cannabis butter. If you don’t know which strain to use, check the different cannabis seeds and the offers of our online growshop.
Materials
- Blender
- Pots
- Mixing spoon
- Sieve or strainer
- Plastic container
How to prepare your Cannabutter
To prepare a quality cannabis butter, you must follow the following instructions:
- The first thing is to shred your cannabis so they can blend better with the butter. You can use a blender for it.
- The next step is to boil your plant materials in water over low heat for 20 minutes. This way, we’ll be able to remove the characteristic chlorophyll taste, as well as part of the impurities to be mixed with the butter.
- After making sure that your materials are free of impurities, you’ll need to proceed to melt your butter in water at the lowest heat possible (we recommend using butter instead of margarine as the final products are completely different).
- When the butter is completely melted, toss in your weed. It needs to be on low heat and you’re going to need to mix it constantly for at least 30 minutes; until you get a uniform and homogeneous butter mixture.
- Once the butter has absorbed all of the cannabinoids from the weed, it’s time to sieve the butter into the plastic container to make sure that there are no hard bits of cannabis in it.
- You’ll need to let it cool down at room temperature for a couple of hours and then stick it in the fridge for 24h. The next day you should have a nice layer of butter floating on top of the water. It should have the same texture as normal butter but with a slightly greener color.
- The next day, you’ll have to carefully remove the layer of butter from the container.
- Once finished, you can put it in the fridge where it will last about two weeks before going bad. If you want your butter to last longer, store it in the freezer and use it when needed (we recommend cutting it into chunks before freezing it for more convenience).
Tips to prepare your cannabutter
If you want to give a different flavor to your cannabutter, you can add different ingredients such as fruits, sugars, spices or savory herbs, depending on what you want. Spicy lovers can add chili powder, pepper or even hot sauce. On the other hand, sweet-toothed people can add sugar, cocoa powder or crushed candies.
These were the instructions to make this easy recipe. All you need to do is get on with it, however, as we always stress in these recipes, you need to consume edibles responsibly. When you ingest cannabis you’re truly ingesting all of it, whereas when you smoke it you’re only absorbing a 40% of the full amount of cannabinoids available. This can cause much too intense of an effect, so it is better to start with a low dosage to gradually increase it.
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