Oat Milk
for Environment911.org - “But Make It Vegan”
January 2022
If you love non-dairy milk, and are looking for a way to reduce your environmental impact by buying less packaged goods, making your own mylk at home is incredibly easy.
None more so than oat milk!
Two, maybe three, ingredients, a blender and finely woven tea towels and you’re set – plus you save yourself a trip to the store.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup rolled oats
4 cups of cold (preferably filtered) water (less if you want thicker milk)
OPTIONAL:
Pinch of salt
Vanilla extract
INSTRUCTIONS:
Add the water, oats and optional ingredients into a blender.
At high speed for 20-30 seconds (DO NOT over-blend as it will get slimy) blend together.
Over a large bowl, place a clean, finely woven tea towel, and then slowly pour in half of the mixture (it’s easier to do in stages).
Gently squeeze out the milk – too hard and you’ll get the oat sediment coming though – and then repeat with the second half of the blended mix.
Optionally once the milk has all been removed, you can do a second pass through another tea towel to remove any sediment that made it through.
Transfer to your desired containers, place in fridge to cool and enjoy.
Make sure to shake before consuming as it may separate a bit.
Should last a few days in the fridge/possibly up to a week (give it a smell!).
