Hi guys, welcome to Drinks Tube I'm Danielle and today I have for you one of my favourite
recipes, almond milk.
It's a great dairy free alternative to regular milk and it's perfect if you're intolerant,
allergic or if you're vegan.
This recipe is super easy to make it just takes a little bit of prep work.
It's a great alternative to regular milk you can use it with absolutely everything, your
porridge, your cereal, your coffee, your tea, anything.
I'm making almond milk today which is definitely the most popular but other nut milks are great
and you can make them with just about any other nut and I'm gonna' give you some wicked
tips on those as well.
Right, so let's get started.
So I have here one cup of almonds, this is about two hundred grams, really really important,
you need to soak the almonds in water for about eight to twelve hours.
I've just left them over night.
Ok, so after you've soaked your almonds you wanna' make sure that you rinse them.
It's really really important.
I know you can find some recipes on the internet that tell you that you need to peel every
almond, I suggest you just chuck them in the blender and we're just gonna strain up the
skin anyhow so don't worry about that, it's just gonna' save a lot of time and effort.
Ok great, so the next thing that we're going to chuck into the blender is our filtered
water.
Super super easy, we're just gonna use the exact same cup that we used to measure out
the almonds, and we're just gonna' times that by four.
There we go, we have four cups, perfect.
Right, so that's all we need for the almond milk.
Now if you wanna add a little extra natural sweetness you can add something like pitted
dates, agave syrup, or honey which I prefer so I'm going to use about two teaspoons of
all natural raw honey.
Great, so I'm choosing honey because I really like the taste of honey I prefer it and also
honey and almond has a really really great combination.
Now, if you're vegan you're gonna wanna stay away from the honey so I would add either
the pitted dates or the agave syrup.
That's all that goes into our super easy almond milk recipe, let's just put on the lid and
blitz it up for a couple minutes.
Ok great, I think that's about finished so what we're going to do is we'll take this
off and then we're going to pour it over a muslin cloth, over the top of a bowl you want
to make sure.
You could also use a sieve if you have that at home.
So you may wanna' do this bit by bit, we'll just pour it and then we're gonna squeeze
it through and then try it again.
So you just need to squeeze it through and it's super super easy, you can see the cloth
is just gathering all of the pulp from the almonds and the skins.
Now we're just gonna' squeeze through the rest.
So we'll just pour that through here, gather this together and then give it a good squeeze.
And you wanna' make sure that you squeeze it really really hard, you wanna gather all
of the milk and then you are left with all this amazing almond pulp.
Now, you wanna' make sure you do not chuck this away because you can make a really really
nice almond flour out of this.
All you do is, you dry it out and then you blitz it up and it's perfect for baking.
There is our almond milk right there.
The next thing that we're going to do is pour it into our glass bottles.
We can keep it in the fridge for about three to four days.
Now, one important point I want to mention is that the almond milk will naturally seperate
over time so you wanna' make sure that you give it a good shake every time you serve
it.
It's ok to spill a bit don't worry about it, or a lot.
Ok perfect, it's all set.
There you guys have it our super easy almond milk recipe.
This method works for many other nuts, they just have different soaking times.
For example, soak macadamia nut, pine nut, peanut and hazelnut for eight hours.
Pecan's four to six hours, soak walnuts for four hours, cashew nuts, two hours and pistachio
and brazil nut you don't need to soak.
Ok, so the last thing that we need to do of course is give it a taste.
Oh, I'm so excited for this one.
Oh my gosh it's amazing, such a creamy creamy flavour, the honey you can taste the sweetness
of the honey it's absolutely fantastic.
I don't know why you would ever wanna' drink normal milk ever again.
This is absolutely amazing guys, you need to try it at home.
There's a ton of different recipes that you can use with this including my wicked chocolate
almond milk.
You can get that recipe by clicking over here or there's a link in the description below.
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Cheers guys.