Tag: Vegan swaps

How to make creamy nut milk and nut/oat blend milk at home.

I'm holding a bottle of homemade plant milk.
Photo shows me holding a bottle of homemade plant milk

Making your plant milk at home is easy, uses less packaging, and contains no unnecessary, and potentially harmful additives . What are you waiting for?

NUT MILK

Ingredients

1 cup nuts ( I usually use a mix of almonds and hazelnuts but you can also use other nuts or seeds such as pumpkin seeds)

4-5 cups water

Blender

Nut milk bag

METHOD

  1. Soak the nuts in enough hot water to cover (from the kettle) for an hour (or more).
  2. Drain and rinse
  3. Add fresh water
  4. Blend
  5. Strain through a nut milk bag, muslin or other fine weave cloth. This time you can squeeze to get as much liquid as you can out.
  6. Pour into your preferred container and refrigerate.

OAT AND NUT MILK

My plant milk of choice at the moment is a mix of oat and nut milk. Because the oat milk is best filtered through a sieve and the nut milk though a nut milk bag I find it easiest to make a half batch of each and then mix them together in a bottle at the end. To make the oat milk part I keep it super simple and rinse 1 part of oats then blend with 3 parts of water and strain through 2 sieves on top of each other. I find squeezing the oats through a nut milk bag is difficult as the oats swell up. Then I make the nut milk exactly as above and mix the 2 together.

Because the sieve allows small particles of the oats through you will need to shake it before use as the small bits settle to the bottom. If there is a lot of sediment when I’m nearing the bottom of the bottle I often add more water and give it a good shake again to make it last a bit longer.

WHAT TO DO WITH THE OAT AND NUT PULP

After making these you will be left with a small amount of oat pulp and rather more nut pulp. Don’t throw this away as it can be used up in many recipes – I often share how I use it over in my instagram account. Some of my favourites are in homemade granola, in bread, cookies and cake. Treading my own Path blog has a great recipe for vegan chocolate brownies using nut pulp. The oat pulp can easily be added to porridge. You can add some nut pulp in place of tahini and I have tried fermenting it to make vegan cheese before.

Do let me know how you get on if you give this a try – and if you have other ideas for using the nut/oat pulp.