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I’ve been making my own non-dairy milks in my Vitamix blender for as many years as I’ve been vegan (over five!). Homemade milks save you $$ MONEY! I’m frugal to the core.
Homemade milks also taste much better than the vast majority of packaged non-dairy milks. Of course, I do like the taste of packaged unsweetened soy milk (containing just organic soybeans and filtered water), but I haven’t found a commercial nut milk that I like. Sorry- but they taste icky and “chemically” to me. And, I don’t want vegetable gums/oils and sweeteners in my milk.
Here’s the milk I currently make…
COCO-HAZELNUT RICE MILK
Coco-Hazelnut Rice Milk Ingredients
INGREDIENTS
Scant 1/2 C cooked short or med grain brown rice (*do NOT use long grain)
1/3 C raw hazelnuts (or any kind of raw nut that you like)
1/4 C unsweetened coconut shreds (coarse or fine shred)
4 C water
1 t vanilla extract
ASSEMBLY
1. Cook a batch of brown rice ahead of time. Freeze in 1/2 cup portions so you’ll have just what you need when you’re ready to make some milk. Thaw the portion of rice while the nuts and coconut are soaking.
2. Soak the nuts and coconut in the water overnight or 4-8 hours, in the fridge.
3. Blend the rice, nuts, coconut, water and vanilla in a high powered blender.
4. I don’t strain out the sediment, but you can if you want to. I just shake before pouring. (After 5+ years of drinking homemade milks, the little bit of sediment just seems “normal” to me.)
5. Store in the fridge in glass jars. Use within about a week. (After that period of time, it will turn into a sort of kefir.)
Coco-Hazelnut Rice Milk
*To learn why you do NOT want to use long grain rice, read my previous blog post Milk A Plant. That post also contains my similar recipe for date-sweetened Brazil Nut Rice Milk.
I make this recipe ALL the time. My favorite nut butter to use is Once Again’s Sunflower Butter. I get the one without added sugar and salt. I eat this stuff a spoonful at a time when I feel a little rumble in my belly. You can also use peanut butter or almond butter.
Dry Ingredients:
1/3 C EACH – millet, quinoa, brown rice & garbanzo bean flours
1/2 C ground GF oats
1/4 C rolled GF oats
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
1 t cinnamon
“Wet” Ingredients:
2 large bananas, mashed
1/2 C nut butter (sunflower, peanut, almond)
1/4 C evaporated cane juice (granulated vegan sugar)
**scant 1/3 C unsweetened applesauce (3 cubes – see note)
1/3 C non-dairy milk
1 T organic canola oil
1 t vanilla
Raw vegan sugar
Combine the dry and “wet” ingredients separately, then mix together. Spoon into 12 muffin liners. Sprinkle 1/8 t raw sugar on top. Bake at 350 degrees for about 23 minutes.
** This equates to 3 frozen ice cubes of applesauce. I freeze applesauce in ice cube trays so that I always have small amounts of applesauce on hand. Thaw.
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Oct 7, 2013 recipe modifications:
I used 1/4 C ground flax + 1/4 C ground oats instead of 1/2 C ground oats.
I used 3 bananas instead of 2.
I used 1/4 C strawberry jam instead of sugar.
I omitted the applesauce and the oil.
Freeheel Vegan 