Homemade Chocolate Oat Milk
This Homemade Chocolate Oat Milk will quickly become your favorite chocolate milk ever! It is so refreshing, creamy and delicious. All you need to make it is a handful of ingredients like rolled oats, dates, cacao powder and water. Plant-based and vegan friendly. A great alternative to dairy and nut milks, and much better option to store-bought milks.
Ingredients
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 3 tbsp cacao powder
- 5 pitted dates
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch salt
- 5 cups filtered water
Instructions
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Layer ingredients in a high speed blender; oats, cacao powder, dates, vanilla extract, and pink salt. Pour in water and place lid on blender making sure it's tightly closed. Blend for 30-45 seconds until smooth texture is reached.
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Place nut bag (or a clean kitchen towel if you don't have a nut bag) over large mixing bowl. Start pouring blended oat milk into nut bag. Pour 1/3 of the milk into the bag. Close bag and squeeze bag from the middle down putting in as much strength as possible. Try to squeeze as much liquid as possible leaving pulp inside the bag very dry. Repeat with another 1/3 of the milk. Then again with remaining milk until all milk has been put through nut bag. Discard leftover pulp left in nut bag.
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Pour milk in a large wide mouth mason jar. Keep chocolate oat milk refrigerated for up to 5-7 days. Chocolate oat milk is best when served chilled. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Tips and Substitutions:
- Use Nut Bag to make chocolate oat milk- A nut bag is the best option to make homemade oat milk or any homemade nut milk. It's easy to use and leaves milk very smooth and creamy.
- No nut bag?- No problem, use a clean kitchen towel, cheese cloth or coffee filters.
- Try to squeeze as much liquid as possible- Pulp inside the bag should be very dry after squeezing liquid out.
- Substitute for cacao powder- Use unsweetened cocoa powder.
- Substitute for dates- Use any sweeter of choice like maple syrup or honey