Fresh Homemade Oat Milk | easy, plant-based, vegan #food #drink #nutmilk

Hey there, I'm Chef Ani and today we are making oat milk. If you've never made oat milk before, this is a super simple way of making just the most delicious milk. It is super easy to make oat milk. It's also inexpensive to make and it is outstandingly delicious. Actually, this video was requested by many of you who wanted to learn how to make oat milk at home. So let's get right into this video. So enough talking, let's get cooking. So when you make oat milk, there are a couple key things to make sure that this will turn out really good. One of those things is to make sure that the water is super cold because if it's slightly warmer, like a room temperature, once you mix it with the oats, it could get a little slimy and of course that's not what we want. It's so important, in fact, that we actually add in some ice and make sure our water is super cold. We're also going to add in vanilla extract. This, of course, is optional, but it adds a really nice flavor. And then we're also going to add in a little bit of salt and then an optional thing, but a nice thing you can add is a little bit of sweetness in here. You could add in some maple syrup or a little agave nectar. I like to do that because it gives a nice little sweet taste but if you wanna just leave it like this, it'll be good too. And now we're going to add in our oats. We are using organic rolled oats, which are very good in this recipe. One of the things that I love about making oat milk is you don't have to soak the oats like you do like a nut milk. It's pretty much instant. You can just make it up real quick with your oats that you have in your cabinet and then you are ready to go with fresh homemade milk. It just does not get any easier than that. Now we're going to blend this and you want to blend it only like in between 30 and 40 seconds because you don't wanna blend it so much that this heats up. So we wanna keep this whole mixture cold because we don't want a slimy texture. There you go. If you feel it, you can still feel that it's very cold. So the next thing we're going to do is to strain our oat milk. And one of the things that we like to use is this bag here. It works very well for oat milk. These here, your traditional nut bags, at least this one, does not work as well for oat milk but this one works really good. I'll make sure to leave a link down below so you can find it. It's on Amazon. See, this bag does such a nice job. It just really just strains it beautifully. And you wanna squeeze gently but not as hard as you would like in almond milk or something like that because you just don't want it to all come out. So you just wanna squeeze some. So here you can see what's left, the oat pulp here. And this you can throw into other recipes. So we have our beautiful oat milk here and we're going to show you how my family likes to store it. Now when you buy oat milk or nut milk in the store, you will see that it sometimes contains ingredients that keep it from separating. But when you make it our homemade version, it is just natural, beautiful oats. And so it will separate a little bit on you sometimes. So we like to use a nice mason jar or something that you can shake with lid so that before you use it, you can just give it a good shake and then you can enjoy it that way. It just does not get any better than that. One of my favorite things on the planet is homemade oat milk. It's so delicious. It's super inexpensive. You just use like a cup of oats and you get that whole container of milk and it's fresh milk that you can enjoy with your family and they're going to love it. And if you want a fun little thing, you can make the biscotti recipe from last week's video. So head over there, I'll leave a link down below and just dunk it in here. It's just not getting any better. Oh, it just does not get better. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you want the detailed recipe, you can find it on my website, chefonnie.com. I'll leave a link down below. Thank you so much for watching. Please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it. Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I post new videos every Wednesday and I look forward to seeing you next Wednesday with another video.