Smooth and creamy and sweet too!

Making your own milk has become all the rage, and I’ve been right there with it, blending soaked nuts with water to make my own tasty milk beverage. While it feels good to be making milk from scratch, nothing about it was ever too exciting or zippy….until I added DATES! The versatile and simple date is making a comeback with me. Add a pitted date to anything and you have this wonderful sweetness that is just right.  This milk is so flavorful, almost decadent.

This recipe is from Oh She Glows. It is a mix of hazelnuts and almonds, but feel free to modify the quantities of each or use cashew.  It is perfect for pouring on your cereal, adding to your cold brewed iced coffee, using to make a smoothie, or drinking straight up out of a glass.

If you haven’t joined the ranks of homemade milk maker, now is the time to start. It’s easy and fun!  Oh, and as an aside, look at me with a second addition to our Sips and Slurps category within a month.  I’ve broken the seal!

Ingredients

3/4 cup raw hazelnuts
1/4 cup raw almond
3 1/2 cups water
3 pitted Medjool dates
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Method

Place hazelnuts and almonds in a bowl and cover with water and soak 8-12 hours. Drain and rinse.

Place soaked nuts in a blender with water, dates, vanilla, and cinnamon. Blend 1 minute.

Cover bowl with cheesecloth (I used a large 1 quart measuring cup and secured the cheesecloth with a rubber band). Slowly pour milk mixture through cheesecloth and into bowl. The milk will go through slowly so be patient. Remove the residue from the cheesecloth for the next round of pouring. Continue this process until all milk is through the cheesecloth.

There you have it – delicious, homemade hazelnut almond milk. 

Makes 3 cups.

Squeeze the cheesecloth to get every last drop.