Oat Milk
Healthy, light, made from ordinary ingredients! Oat milk is a plant-based alternative to cow's milk, and it's very easy to make at home. It's lactose-free, so it can be drunk by people with lactose intolerance, as well as those fasting and vegetarians.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make oat milk? Get the ingredients ready. For oat milk, use large flakes that take a long time to cook. Instant oats won't work, especially since they contain very few useful components. Take a bowl and pour in the oats.
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Step 2:
Take a liter of cold boiled water. Cover the oats with this water and leave them for 12 hours. It's most convenient to do this overnight so the milk is ready for breakfast. The amount of oats doesn't matter; the main thing is a 1:10 ratio of oats to water.
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Step 3:
After 12 hours, stir the swollen mixture, then pour it into a blender. Blend it into a white, uniform mass.
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Step 4:
Now strain the mixture. To make filtering easier, set a sieve over a deep bowl or pot and line it with several layers of cheesecloth (2-3). Pour the oat mixture into the sieve and let it drain. You can help it along a little with a spoon.
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Step 5:
Pour the strained white liquid from the container into a jug or bottle, or pour it straight into glasses. The oat milk is ready. From 100 grams of oats and a liter of water I got a little over 800 milliliters of the finished product. Store the milk in the fridge. It keeps for 5 days. So making milk from oats at home takes little effort, and it comes out much cheaper than store-bought. Enjoy!
- Oat milk is a relatively new product, created in the early 1990s. Its creator was the Swedish scientist Rickard Öste, who was researching lactose intolerance and looking for a cow's-milk replacement. Soon after creating this plant-based drink, Öste founded Oatly and became the first commercial producer of oat milk. Today various ingredients are added to oat milk to vary its flavor - for example, it can be made chocolate, and a few drops of vanilla flavoring give it a pleasant, slightly sweet vanilla taste.
- Important! To make oatmeal dishes that are always delicious, and for all the secrets of choosing and cooking it, read the article on oats and rolled oats.
- For cooking, it's better to use neutral-tasting filtered or bottled water. If you use tap water, keep in mind it can give the dish an unpleasant off-taste.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Rolled oats - 305 kcal/100g
- Raw rolled oats - 390 kcal/100g
