Homemade Oat Milk Recipe - Real + Vibrant (2024)

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How to make homemade oat milk taste better? ›

To fortify homemade oat milk, you can blend supplements or vitamin powder (like vitamin D, B2, B12) into the milk. Alternatively, you can purchase the vitamin/s as drops (which will impact the flavor less but cost more).

In addition to being nutrient-deficient, Reema warned that oat milk could also lead to health issues. She said: "Since oat milk does contain naturally occurring sugars, it can cause rises in blood sugar. During production, oats are blended with water, and the liquid is strained, resulting in the plant based milk.

If you want it a little more thick and creamy, clean out your blender jar, pour the oat milk into the blender with the xanthan gum. Blend for 15-20 seconds.

It's too grainy – this is because of blending and straining. Two things we can totally fix! The best way to do this is to only blend the oat milk for 30 seconds. This is plenty of time to get everything combined, but it will make sure that the oat granules don't become too small to be strained out.

A ratio of 1 cup of oats to 4 cups of water will make 4 cups of oat milk. Add cane sugar or vanilla to taste or leave it out if you prefer it unsweetened. Use cold or ambient temperature water. Heat negatively affects the oat milk's consistency and can cause a slimy or chalky texture.

How do you make oat milk not slimy? Over-blending can make the oat milk slimy in texture, which is why we recommend blending for about 30-45 seconds. Soaking your oats can also make the oats more prone to sliminess. Just add to the blender with water and blend!

Oat milk contains a good quantity of fatty acids, protein, minerals, vitamins, dietary fiber, and a variety of micronutrients and provides several health benefits, as it reduces blood sugar, lowers cholesterol, and prevents cancer (Jeske et al., 2018). Therefore, oats are a promising alternative to traditional milk.

For best results, heat up your oat milk first. Once it's warm, put the frother in and use it for a minute, moving it all around the surface. The foam is likely to be less silky, and the foam disappears quicker than with a milk frother, but it's still a good option.

Drinking oat milk is probably fine for your body unless you're drinking large quantities of it, already loading your diet with carbs, and/or diabetic. If most of your day's liquid is coming from any milk, plant-based or not, that's probably not great. Moderation is key.

Is oat milk inflammatory? ›

Oats are high in carbs and may raise your blood sugar levels and lead to inflammation. Moreover, many oat milk brands on the market are full of added sugar and additives. Some brands may even include refined oil, such as canola oil that may lead to inflammation in your body.

Healthiest milk to drink

Ultimately, cow's milk is the healthiest to drink if you can tolerate it. It has the most nutritional value. Cow's milk has many health benefits, such as helping to improve muscle mass and bone health. For regular milk drinkers, three cups per day is the standard.

Use Cold Water – remember, you are making oat MILK, not oat MEAL. Using hot water can cause the oats to coagulate and become slimy, which is obviously not the goal here. So, make sure you use cold water, every time.

Even though you can strain the oat milk to remove the excess oat pulp, there are still super-fine oat particles in the oat milk. Heating the milk causes those fine particles to thicken, as if you were cooking oatmeal on the stove.

2 cups oats (I used the 75p ones in the paper bag from Aldi as in the photo – less plastic waste!) 1 tbsp rapeseed oil (or 1/3 cup of fatty nuts like cashew or macadamia) 1/2 tsp xanthan gum. 1 tsp calcium carbonate powder (optional)

How do you make oat milk not slimy? Over-blending can make the oat milk slimy in texture, which is why we recommend blending for about 30-45 seconds. Soaking your oats can also make the oats more prone to sliminess. Just add to the blender with water and blend!

add either hot or cold oat milk to a large glass. Add spices vanilla extract. Then add your frother. You're gonna start frothing bringing the frother up and down lifting the milk.

I find the oat milk I drink is like 95% of the way there in terms of being exactly the same taste as regular milk (not oatly, I found that one to be not great). The last 5% is an almost imperceptible "toasted oat" taste, and it's a little on the thick side.