Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen. Today we're going to be making a delicious
almond milk. I promised when we unboxed the Breville Boss one of the first
things we were going to do is make almond milk and technically I'm not
going to be making it today because I've got to soak my almonds overnight so
they plump up and make them optimized for getting all the almond milk out of
them. So this is the start of the smoothie Tuesday series and throughout
this series we'll be doing beautiful healthy smoothies. We're going to start
today by making almond milk. So we're going to start by taking a cup of almonds
and just popping them into a container. We want to completely submerge the
almonds in water and that's it. We're just going to leave those for at least 8
hours just to soak up that moisture. Now I've soaked those almonds overnight and you can
see that they've actually swollen up and the waters gone Brown that's the tannins
coming out of the skins, which is fine. We're going to rinse these off and you
can see there just how much the almonds have absorbed the moisture and
that's going to make them a lot easier to extract the milk out off. Now we put
the rinsed almonds into the blender and into which I'm going to add 4 cups of
water. Now you can use distilled water or any water you're comfortable with
drinking. Now I've tried this with and without vanilla extract and I prefer it
with a teaspoon of vanilla extract in it. If you like your almond milk sweet you
can add some honey or stevia into it, I'm not a great fan of sweet almond milk but
I do like to add just one day to add a little sweetness and to enhance
everything just a pinch of salt. Pop your lid on nice and securely. Now ideally you
want to blend this on high for about 2 minutes.
I like to do about a minute on high and then a pulse for a further minute.
Now I'm using cheesecloth or muslin and I've just doubled it over, we've got a
colander and a bowl, place your cheesecloth into the bowl and we're
going to pour our almonds or blended almonds into the cheesecloth and we're
just going to let that drip through. Now I'm going to draw the corners up of the
muslin and I'm going to twist it together
and then we're going to squeeze out all of the almond milk. So that's a nice big
bowl of really rich looking almond milk. Let's see how much we've got, I'm
going to pour it into a jug. So we've got almost 900 mls and thats just shy of 30
fluid ounces of beautiful almond milk but let's not forget also we've got this
wonderful almond meal. Now I know some of the nutrients are out of there but I
suspect almond meal you buy in the supermarket also is a byproduct of
making almond milk so it's most likely just as good actually I'm going to make
some wonderful almond cookies in an episode very shortly. So we'll check out
what you can do with this Almond meal. So I've got this delicious rich almond milk
I'm going to give it a taste test but let's just talk about value. We've made almost
a liter of a really rich looking almond milk with a cup of almonds. Now I've got
a bag of almonds there that are a kilo. They cost me around about $10 Australian
for a kilo so that's just over 2.2 pounds
Now with that kilo of almonds I could certainly make four to five batches of
almond milk, so we're looking about $2 50 maybe $2 per litre which is certainly
comparable to what I'm getting in the shop but does it taste better, let's give
it a try. Now I could taste test the almond milk
I've got in the fridge but I know what it tastes like I've been having it with
my cereal recently. Here goes,
oh that is so good, it's rich it's almondy it's just the right amount of
sweetness for me, that's delicious. So would I make almond milk on a regular
basis, it lasts about 3 to 5 days in the fridge, if you make it fresh like this.
Yes I would, all the time, I'm not sure but it certainly is worth it, so test
this out, let me know what you think. Comment down below, don't forget to share
this across on any social media, particularly on Facebook with your
friends and family and I will see you for that recipe shortly, we will make
those cookies with the Almond meal, so see you then, take care. 😎