RECIPE: Easy Home Made Oat Milk

Finally!! I hear you cry; a recipe! I know guys and dolls it's been a long old time but to be honest Alex and I have not been experimenting that much. I've been focusing a lot on speeding up my evening processes so I have more free time with Alex (and to watch copious amounts of Game of Thrones- SRSLY WHO SAW LAST WEEKS?!). This means that dinners are getting simplified and I am not photographing my steps. Sorry!

So luckily today's recipe is unbelievably easy. You only need a blender and a fine sieve. A spoon would be ideal too but if you're going super minimalist....
I drank oat milk a lot while I was at university and found a love for it when I couldn't drink dairy as a teenager. However there's no denying that oat milk (and most milk alternatives) are really expensive. The oat milk I used to but was £1.89 for 1 litre and I found it went off really quickly too. When you can get 2 litres of cows milk for 89p down our local shop its hard to justify the spend nowadays.

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Upon reflection that milk probably had loads of sugar in and as I bought the UHT version all try goodness was probably pasteurized out. Thank god for health bloggers like Deliciously Ella and Madeleine Shaw for teaching us health bunnies about this!

So what do you do when shop-bought stuff is too expensive and less  beneficial for you than it could be? Well you make your own! Yep. I'm actually making milk this week. No I haven't lost my mind: it's so easy, makes enough for the week and helps those who want to avoid dairy do it in a cost effective way. Let me know if you make this recipe in the comments below.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of rolled oats
• 4 cups of water (use a little less if you're used to full-fat milk for a thicker consistency)
• 2 dates

Method

• Whack everything in a blender and whizz it up for 2 minutes. I used my Breville Blend Active
• Pour this mixture through a sieve into a jug. Remove the left over pulp from the sieve.
• Repeat this process a couple of times until you're no longer left with pulp.
• Pour this into a sealed bottle container and keep in the fridge.

I have found the milk is best used over cereal, especially oat based granola, porridge or Bircher.

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