However, it's an intriguing addition to most people's routine in the morning. It's simple to make oat milk home with just two ingredients: oats and water. Follow the below guidelines:. Others prefer thicker oat milk by adding over one serving size, so find out what works best for you.
You can also try different kinds of sweetener or fruit if you like it as well. After you blend the mixture, empty it into your jars or cups. Keep it in the fridge and enjoy it within three days. It's important to put fresh fruit in the blender before you heat it. That's because it'll make your oat milk sweeter. Plus, you get all the fiber from this food. Arguably, Oatly is the company that began it all.
The company has been making oat milk since the s. The brand is famous in more than 20 countries, and you should try it out with your drink. Oatly is so prevalent in the dairy and milk industry that the first thing that comes to their mind is Oastly's packaging when talking about oat milk. The company even makes frozen desserts.
Some of the best flavors include original oat, vanilla , and coffee. Elmhurst milked oats come with only five ingredients, and they come close to Oatly. According to the company, the milked oats are tasty in cereal, delicious in coffee , and excellent for smoothies. And we agree!
The milked oats come with a natural texture and taste. And it's delicious, soothing, and quite refreshing when it's cold. Califia Farms makes some of the best oat milk worldwide. I found the pale grey, skim milk—thin beverage to be surprisingly sweet and reminiscent of horchata or melted iced milk. While I might not choose to down a glass of it, it's the only oat milk I think would be suitable for cereal, mainly due to the drink's looser texture. It contains the fewest ingredients of all of the commercial milks I've tried so far: just water, oats and sea salt — the same ingredients you'd use if you were to make oat milk at home My friend Michelle Kano is a fitness instructor, trainer and nutritional specialist with a sensitivity to the proteins in cow's milk.
She documents her plant-based food journey online and recently shared her homemade oat milk recipe a habit born out thriftiness, though she does stock up on the commercial brands when they go on sale.
With that to start, I scoured the internet for recipes. I found straightforward instructions to blitz water and oats in a high-powered blender, and other recommendations to soak oats overnight and strain the liquid through cheesecloth. Almost all of the recipes start with uncooked oats quick-cook rolled oats or steel-cut oats, pre-soaked for 30 minutes , require refrigerated storage of the final product, and suggest consuming it within three to five days.
There's also talk of the options to sweeten or flavour the beverage with maple syrup, agave nectar, vanilla extract, date syrup or ground cinnamon.
Equipped with my research, I settled on my own stripped-down recipe, using steel-cut oats, water and salt, and blitzed a cup of overnight-soaked oats with filtered water and a pinch of Himalayan salt I'm fancy like that on high power for 30 seconds.
I strained the slurry and passed the liquid through a coffee filter to remove any further residue. As expected, my homemade version had a runny texture, similar to Isola Bio's Oat Light drink, but it wasn't anywhere in the same league of sweetness — mine tasted exactly like you'd imagine boiled oat water would taste.
I could see why Kano noted that she only cooks with her homemade version or uses it in smoothies. I had mixed results in my experiments to take oat milk beyond the realm of coffee and tea. I tried using my homemade milk in overnight-soaked muesli, figuring the reconstituted dried fruit and nuts would lend a bit of sweetness to my bland liquid. The final result was edible but not memorable.
Oat milk's toasty and sweet flavour is said to work in batter-based goods like pancakes and waffles; quick breads, including loaf cakes and muffins; or in small amounts in cookie doughs or crusts. I decided to try using commercial oat milk in a pancake recipe free from any other forms of dairy besides the milk I intended to replace, my reasoning being that anyone who would be substituting alt-milk in a recipe was likely doing so due to an aversion or objection to dairy.
The final product was fluffy, moist and thick, and resembled English muffins. Oat Milk is not only found in grocery stores but restaurants as well. Starbucks even offers an Oat Milk option. If you are looking for a new dairy alternative, you should give oat milk a try.
Benefits of Oat Milk Oat milk is a great alternative for those who want to avoid soy, almonds, or other tree nut milk. Another benefit of oat milk is that it has more vitamins and minerals than rice or almond milk.
Oat milk also contains linoleic acid, an omega fatty acid that may help reduce inflammation. Oats grow in nitrogen-rich soil and require less water than almonds or most other crops.
Does Oat Milk Taste Good? Oat milk is made out of oats and water. The oatmeal is cooked into a slurry, then strained to remove the excess liquid from it.
One taster wrote that the color looked like "milk that was poured onto a dirty sidewalk and scooped back into the carton. It looks like what you'd expect from a nut milk. But when it came to the odor, all tasters agreed that the soy milk had a pleasant and sweet smell reminiscent of cotton candy or vanilla ice cream.
However, after tasting it, most people said they wouldn't drink it again. They wrote that they were "Surprised by the taste" in the worst way: "So bad.
So thick. I'm gagging. Tastes like there is cardboard in my milk. Next up was the Almond Breeze almond milk. It left a pretty bad first impression with tasters when they examined the color.
All tasters agreed there was a strange color here. One thought it looked purple, while another described it as having a "gray, dull tint. After giving it a try, most tasters thought it was on the thicker side — only one said they would drink it again and ranked it their favorite so far. The almond milk's taste got mixed reviews — one taster wrote that they "could see this being good in coffee but not on its own," while another predicted it "would taint any cup of coffee.
Before the tasting, we predicted that the oat milk drink would be the best overall, mostly due to the hype it's generated on the internet. But it was actually the worst.
On a scale of 1 labeled "Ew" to 5 labeled "Beautiful" , every taster ranked the oat milk drink as "Ew.
Tasters wrote that it had a tint of green in the coloring that made it look like "you rinsed lettuce with it, put it in a salad spinner, and was subjected to drinking it. On a scale ranging from 1 labeled "Rotten" to 5 labeled "Yummy" Oatly's stench raked in mostly rotten ratings — two people gave it a neutral score.
While two tasters said there was no distinct smell, there were three very offended noses in the room: "It smelled like an old arts and crafts drawer with notes of paste and Play-Doh. Thoughts on viscosity ranged from "somewhat watery" to "basically heavy cream," but overall, the taste was unanimously unpleasant. Participants said it reminded them of "something you're not supposed to taste. Like putty or something. Others said it left "a weird taste in my mouth" and made them "self-conscious about my after-milk breath.
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