How Do You Make Oat Milk?

Oats are one of those amazing ingredients that can be used in many ways. You can make oatmeal, oat flour, oat milk, and the list goes on. Oat Milk is a great dairy-free option for those who are lactose intolerant or simply trying to reduce their dairy intake. It's also great if you're vegan because it provides some important nutrients that aren't found in other plant-based milk. In this post, I'm going to show you how do you make oat milk at home. It's really easy and only takes a few minutes! So let's get started.

Oat milk is a great dairy-free alternative to cow's milk. It's high in fiber and has a nutty flavor. Making oat milk is easy, and it only takes a few minutes.

We use plant milk every single day of our lives, from our morning homemade gluten-free, oil-free granola to savory recipes like Vegan mashed potatoes, and Vegan Bechamel Sauce. the bechamel sauce. Homemade Oat Milk is by far the cheapest and fastest plant-based homemade milk option.

We like that this recipe is super adjustable and perfect for your smoothies, like our Superfood Green Detox Smoothie. You can make it creamier, sweeter, or flavor-infused.

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• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🍽️ Equipment
• 🔪 how is oat milk made
• 💡 Expert Tips
• 🫙 Storing: how long does it last?
• 👨🏻‍🍳 How to use it
• 🥛 Why should you do your own DIY oat milk?
• ❓FAQ
• 📚 More DIY milk recipes
• 🎥 Video
• 📋 Recipe
• 💬 Reviews and Comments

🧾 Ingredients

It requires 2 ingredients, 5 minutes, and a blender.

• Rolled Oats (whole grain oats; use gluten-free option if needed)
• Water

Note: keep your oat milk unsweetened if you are planning to make vegan buttermilk to use it as a leaving agent on recipes like vegan apple cake, or vegan mashed sweet potatoes.

Optional

Salt: acts as a flavor enhancer.

Sweeteners: dates, raisins, agave syrup, or maple syrup.

Flavorings: cocoa powder, vanilla extract, banana, strawberry, or hazelnuts.

🍽️ Equipment

Blender, mixing bowl, and filtering fabric of choice.

I like using a piece of fabric for Oat Milk because it is thinner, and nut milk strains more pulp out of it.

🔪 how is oat milk made

So, how do you get milk from Oats?

Well, it is much easier than getting cow's milk and definitely healthier than dairy milk!

Hint: If you don't have the time and want to make it quick, you can also soak them in warm water for 5 minutes and proceed.

Oat milk is typically a little sweet, but you can add one or two pitted dates if you want sweetened oat milk. Remove the inner stone from the dates, as the stone can break your blender, or use homemade date paste.

Hint: you can even use a clean t-shirt or canvas fabric bag.

🫙 Storing: how long does it last?

It depends on whether you sterilize your equipment and how fresh are the ingredients you use. In general, we have found it lasts about 2-3 days.

We often use oat milk for our morning smoothies or Homemade Granola and lemon blueberry overnight oats, so one batch only makes it to the third day. If you are like us, you don't need to sterilize your ingredients as it reaches the 3^rd day without any problem.

If you find that it goes off before expected, easily sterilize your bottles either:

1. Pouring boiling water inside, ensuring the jars are not cold so that they won't break.
2. Then, put them in the dishwasher.

If you have unexpectedly left home or didn't use your milk soon enough and want to prevent it from going off.

You can freeze it in ice cube trays and save them to add to your morning smoothies.

👨🏻‍🍳 How to use it

We like to drink oat milk as it is, as unsweetened oat milk is naturally slightly sweet, just like rice milk. It is one of best milk for smoothies.

You can use it the same way you would use regular milk: in smoothies, in your morning granola or breakfast fruit bowl, in bechamel sauce, or baking.

Below are some recipes where you could use your milk:

• Post-Work Out Smoothie
• Easy Strawberry Banana Smoothie
• Vegan Cauliflower Wings
• Creamy Vegan Sauce for Everything

Lastly, you can also make vegan chocolate milk with this milk.

🥛 Why should you do your own DIY oat milk?

Convenience

1. This plant-based milk alternative is effortless to make; it only takes us 5 minutes.
2. You can make only the quantity you need.
3. It is dairy-free milk, so it is apt for people with lactose intolerance.
4. Can be used in a number of recipes
5. This vegan alternative is fully adjustable in flavor, thickness, and sweetness.
6. It's nut-free, in case you have nut food allergies.
7. It has no added sugars as most commercial brands do.

Pocket-friendly

Making it is super cheap; out of 1 cup of rolled oats, you get 4 cups of delicious plant milk.

If you are on a budget, Oat Milk is the most suitable of them all, including cow's milk. It is also the most sustainable plant-based milk alternative, including almond milk and coconut milk. You can either let it in or make it part of your smoothies in terms of the very little remaining pulp.

In general, plant-based kinds of milk are more sustainable than dairy milk (cow's milk, goat's milk, and sheep's milk).

✅ Health: 10 Benefits of Oat Milk

Is oat milk healthy? Let's dive into the health benefits of milk and why it is an excellent dairy alternative.

1. Low in Calories: if you are looking into keeping your waist, this easy oat milk should be one of your allies. Although all vegetable kinds of milk are significantly lower in calories (46kcal per cup) than regular milk, homemade oat milk is lower than its peers (even lower than Homemade Almond Milk (88 kcal per cup) and Homemade Soy Milk (138kcal per cup)).
2. Skin: oat milk's benefits for skin come from its anti-inflammatory properties, which help reduce acne flare-ups. Oat milk is a humectant that helps skin retain water and is widely found in moisturizers. Oat milk contains Vitamin D, which is great for your skin.
3. Bone Strengthening: oat milk contains potassium, magnesium, and zinc, which are potent minerals and are essential for forming and strengthening bones.
4. Fats: Oat milk has zero saturated fats and three times less fat than whole milk.
5. Dairy-Free: oats are low in fat and dairy-free, so they are an excellent lactose intolerant choice. It also has a naturally sweet taste.
6. Cholesterol-Free: it contains zero cholesterol. Regular consumption may even lower LDL cholesterol (the bad one) in the blood. This is not the case with dairy milk. Dairy products like butter, cheese, and cow's milk are high in cholesterol.
7. High in Fibre: oat milk has twice the dietary fiber as cow's milk making it an excellent choice for adding fiber to your diet for a healthy gut and digestive functions. Soluble fiber plays a role in strengthening the immune system, so regular consumption can prevent infections and also helps the body to heal itself naturally. If you want to keep more from its dietary fiber, you either avoid straining your milk or use a mesh that is not fine.
8. High in Vitamins: oat milk has our beloved B vitamins folate and thiamine, which support the normal function of red blood cells and the breakdown of carbohydrates, respectively.
9. Helps Regulating Blood Sugar Levels: this good friend for people with type 2 diabetes slows down the absorption of carbohydrates in the gut, providing a slower and steadier supply of sugar into the bloodstream. This property is brought to us thanks to its content of soluble fiber.
10. Oat milk is perfect for your needs if you’re looking for plant-based milk without added sugar. It provides the same creamy texture as dairy milk, but oat milk benefits include the same array of health benefits associated with consuming oats.

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