How To Make Nut Milk
As a Health Coach, I am constantly sharing my yummy recipes for smoothies, bowls and healthy snacks. Very often, my recipes call for “your favorite nut milk”. So, naturally, one of the questions I get asked the most is “How do I make nut milk?”
Nut milk is a great alternative to dairy milk: full of protein and healthy fats, delicious and so easy to make yourself! Nut milk is super-easy to make at home and is amazingly versatile. Warning: once you see how easy it is to make it yourself, you’ll never buy premade nut milk anymore [Symbol]
There are 2 ways to make nut milk. Most people don’t know about the express version, it will surprise you!
Fast Nut Milk
Ingredients for 4 cups of nut milk:
* 4 tablespoons of nut butter of choice: almond, walnut, cashew… your favorite.
* 4 cups of water
* Sweetener: 2 pitted dates or 1 tablespoon of raw honey or 1 tablespoon of maple syrup
Tools: Blender
Directions: Blend all the ingredients and enjoy. If you want it cold, let it sit in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Traditional Nut Milk
Ingredients for 4 cups of nut milk:
* 1 cup of nuts of choice
* 4 cups of water
* Sweetener: 2 pitted dates or 1 tablespoon of raw honey or 1 tablespoon of maple syrup
Tools: strainer, blender, nut bag, jar, airtight bottle.
Directions:
1. Start by soaking the nuts in water. Soaking times are:
* Almonds: 8 to 12 hours
* Hazelnuts: 8 hours
* Macadamias: 8 hours
* Peanuts: 8 hours
* Pine nuts: 8 hours
* Pecans: 4 to 6 hours
* Walnuts: 4 hours
* Cashews: 2 hours
* Pistachios: no soaking needed
* Brazil nuts: no soaking needed
2. Rinse the nuts thoroughly. I put them in a strainer and rinse them about 4 times.
3. Tip them into a blender; add 4 cups of water and the sweetener. Blend for 2-3 minutes until smooth.
4. Secure a nut bag over a jar and pour the nut mixture over it. Bunch up the nut bag and squeeze the milk out, leaving the pulp in the bag (you can use the leftover pulp to make nut flour – simply dry it out, whiz it up again and store in a separate jar until needed).
5. Filter the milk into an airtight bottle and pop it in the fridge where it’ll last for a good 3 to 4 days.
And… ready to enjoy!
Note: Nut milks naturally separate – this is nothing to worry about, just give them a good shake before you use them.
Yours in wellness,
Sonia Ribas
@soniaribascoach
