1. Home-ground nuts will never be as finely milled as shop-bought ones, and they may be a little oiler too.
2. Make sure toasted nuts are completely cool before grinding.
3. A food processor is excellent for chopping nuts finely. Put nuts in bowl of a food processor and pulse for a few seconds at a time until nuts are of a fine and evenly ground. Take care not to process nuts for too long or they will become oily.
4. As an alternative to a food processor, nuts can be chopped by hand. Pile nuts on a chopping board.
5. Take a large sharp knife and position it so the flat of the blade faces your body. With your free hand resting on top of the blade near tip, use curved shape of blade to rock knife swiftly back and forth, working your way through the pile.6 Keep piling up nuts and chopping through them until they’re as fine as needed.
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