Simple Steps To Homemade Oat Milk

2019 was the year I fell in love with Oat Milk. But really, it truly hit all my ‘must-haves’ affordable, sustainable, easy steps,nutrient dense and quick!

The best part about making oat milk is no soak time! These little oats are good to go right from the start! Simply add 2 cups of oats to your blender, pour in the water and whatever flavours you enjoy. Blend quickly for about 25-40 seconds (be sure to not let it go too long or else it gets really gooey).

Once blended pour through a fine mesh strainer or a nut milk bag. I like to do this into a large bowl and let the strainer sit over the bowl to continue to leak through. Once it’s totally strained, you can pour back into your blender and then use that to cleanly pour this back into a jar. Seal this and enjoy for up to a week.

Low Waste Hack: Use those dried out oats in smoothies or baking! I added it to my muffin recipe last week without a hitch! It adds a bit of fiber and means you aren’t losing all the nutrients when you make your milk! I think it’s important to remember ‘experimentation’ when you make different foods at home. I hate throwing things out and so I have random bags and containers of all sorts of stuff- trial and error can be a lot of fun!

Remember that Oats are naturally very mucilaginous and so it will be thicker than store-bought Oat Milk as the enzymes are not added. You will need to give the jar a good shake before using to get everything mixed in!

Ingredients

4 cups water

2 cups rolled oats

2 tsp natural sweetener (I like molasses as it’s a great source of iron)

1 tsp cinnamon

14/ tsp salt