This recipe makes one 2-3/4 cup batch of oat milk using a Ninja bullet blender. I usually do this twice to get about 5-1/2 cups of oat milk. This recipe uses 3 cups of water to one cup of oats. Some recipes use up to 4 cups of water to one cup of oats. You can adjust the ratios to your liking.
When I first made oat milk, I made some mistakes and it came out very thick and slimy. I don’t have this problem anymore because I
- Use very cold water.
- Put everything into the refrigerator if I have to stop and continue later, .
- Use a high speed blender. I use a Ninja Bullet or a VitaMix.
- Do not blend more than 25 seconds.
Ingredients
- 1 C Organic Rolled Oats. Get the cheap ones. They taste the same.
- 3 C Very Cold Water
- Pinch of Salt
- Olive Nation French Vanilla Flavoring. You can get it on Amazon.
Required Gear
- Blender
- Fine Mesh Sieve
- Flour Sack Cloth
- Funnel
- Oat Milk Bottle
- Large Pot, Bowl, or Pitcher
- Large Rubber Band
- Plate
Optional Gear
- Large Sieve (see Note 1.D.)
Set up
- Place all your gear & ingredients on a counter or tabletop.
- Place the funnel into the mouth of the oat milk bottle.
- Place the flour sack cloth over the pot and make a depression in the cloth so it’s not taut. Use a large rubber band to hold the cloth in place.
Instructions
Measure one cup of rolled oats into the fine mesh sieve and rinse the oats with cold water for 20-30 seconds.
Add the oats and three cups of very cold water into the blender.
Rinse off the fine mesh sieve.
Place the top onto the blender and blend for 30 seconds.
Remove the blender top and, holding the fine mesh sieve over the funnel, slowly pour the oat milk through the sieve and funnel into the bottle.
If the sieve gets stopped up, stop pouring and allow the liquid in the sieve to pass through, then dump the oats out of the sieve onto the plate. Rinse the sieve, and continue.
Dump the remaining oat bits in the fine mesh sieve onto a plate and rinse the residue off the sieve and blender.
Filter the oat milk by pouring it slowly through the flour sack cloth, secured with the rubber band, into the bowl.1
Using the funnel, pour the oat milk from the bowl back into the bottle. Rinse the bowl and the flour sack cloth.
Start over with another cup of oats and 3 cups of very cold water.
Add a pinch of salt (preservative) and your favorite vanilla extract (flavor) to the final product.
Optional: Secure the cloth over the bowl with the rubber band once again and filter both batches of oat milk through the cloth a second time. I usually do this for a smoother oat milk.
Put your oat milk in the refrigerator to get it nice and cold, give it a shake before using it, and enjoy a nice cold glass of home-made oat milk!
Notes
1The first time you filter the oat milk through the flour sack cloth, it is likely to get clogged with oat residue, preventing some of the remaining oat milk from passing through the cloth. If you pour the milk slowly onto the cloth, you will see when this begins to happen. When it does, you can do one or more of the following:
A. Tilt the bowl, moving the liquid around to use portions of the cloth that are not clogged.
B. Pull the cloth across the opening of the bowl, making sure the rubber band does not pop off, so the liquid can pass through an unused area of the cloth.
Pic shows how to place one corner of the cloth over the bowl. Pull the corner of the cloth (behind the bowl) downward, moving the unused portion under the rubber band.
Not easy.
C. Carefully lift up the cloth containing the remaining liquid (grasp the cloth at its four corners and at four points between the corners) and pull the cloth up until the rubber band pops off. Then, holding the cloth over the bowl, adjust the cloth in your hands, moving the liquid to an unused area of the cloth.
Not easy.
Sorry, I don’t have a picture of this because I only have two hands!
D. Skip the rubber band altogether and place the cloth into a large sieve over a pot. This makes it easier to move the cloth and allow the liquid to pass through unclogged areas.
E. Remove the cloth when it gets clogged, rinse it and reuse it or use a second, clean flour sack cloth.
This may seem time consuming but after you do it a couple of times, it gets much faster. Sometimes I make three 3 cup batches to get about a half gallon of oat milk and it takes me about 30 – 40 minutes.
To keep things moving along, get your ingredients out, set everything up, and rinse off your gear as you go. Oat milk does not leave a residue on your gear so it’s easy to clean up.
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