How to make Oat Milk That's Not Slimy! (5-Minute Recipe)

How to make oat milk that's not slimy! A 5-minute recipe for making homemade oat milk that's creamy, silky smooth and most importantly - not slimy. Enjoy this vegan oat milk in tea and coffee, smoothies, and breakfast bowls.

Course Breakfast, Drinks

Cuisine raw, refined-sugar free, soy-free, vegan

Diet Gluten Free, Low Lactose, Low Salt, Vegan, Vegetarian

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings cups

Calories 146kcal

Author Hannah Sunderani

Ingredients

3/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1/4 cup raw cashews (preferably soaked overnight, but not necessary)
1 tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp coconut oil or other neutral oil
pinch sea salt
4 cups cold water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

In a blender add oats, raw cashews, maple syrup, coconut oil, sea salt and water. Blend on high for no longer than 30 seconds.
Place your nut milk bag over a large bowl and pour oat blend into bag. Squeeze the bag to strain the milk from the pulp.
Pour the freshly squeezed milk from your bowl back into your blender (this allows for easy transfer into a bottle). Transfer the milk into an air tight bottle and store in the fridge.

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Notes

It's preferable to soak the raw cashews overnight, but you can still make this oat milk without soaking. Alternatively, speed up the process of soaking cashews to one hour by pouring boiling water into a bowl of cashews.

If you don't have a nut milk bag you can use a very thin t-shirt, towel, or pair of tights.

To avoid slimy oat milk, blend ingredients for no longer than 30 seconds.

Using cold, refrigerated water also helps to reduce sliminess in this recipe.

This oat milk is best used cold, heating can cause it to thicken. If you're looking for a plant-based milk for frothing into lattes I highly recommend my homemade almond milk.

Oat milk will keep in fridge for up to 5 days. Enjoy in coffee and tea, smoothies, and breakfast bowls.

Nutrition information is not possible for this recipe, as process of straining and removing the oat pulp affects estimation. Please forgo this estimation.

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