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How to Make Almond Milk and Almond Meal
Almond milk is an easy and delicious milk substitute! You can discard the meal or dry it and use it in recipes.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 2 cups raw almonds soaked in water
- 4 cups filtered water
- 1 pinch sea salt
Flavoring options:
- Vanilla paste or extract if making vanilla almond milk
- stevia drops honey, maple syrup or 2-3 dates for sweetening (optional)
- unsweetened cocoa powder if making the chocolate version
Instructions
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Place raw almonds and a pinch of sea salt in a bowl or large jar, cover with filtered water (enough so that water is at least 2-3 inches above nuts) cover and soak over night.
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Discard soaking water and rinse almonds in colander.
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Place soaked nuts in a blender add 4 cups filtered water. Blend until smooth.
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Pour through a milk nut bag in 3rds and squeeze almond milk into a bowl.
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Leave plain or add some vanilla paste to taste. Or sweeten with 3 liquid stevia drops, or a teaspoon or two of honey or maple syrup. I prefer using three dates to sweeten my almond milk. To use dates, add milk back to blender with 2-3 soft, pitted dates and blend until smooth. Always double check pits are removed before blending.
Chocolate version:
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Add desired amount of fresh sweetened vanilla almond milk back into blender and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder per cup of almond milk.
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* If you would like to make almond meal from left over pulp:
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place pulp on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper and bake in oven at 170 degrees for about 2 hours (depends on where you live). When meal feels dry to touch remove from oven. Allow to cool, place in blender for a quick pulse to break up chunks.