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What is plant-based milk?
Plant-based milk is milk extracted from a plant or from cereals, legumes, oilseeds, tubers, etc.
It is an alternative to animal-based milk that contains neither lactose nor casein, making it compatible with a vegan diet. Plant-based milks address and prevent food intolerances to dairy products.
How to make plant-based milk?
Pasteurized plant-based milk cartons do not have the same taste or nutritional content as the ones you make at home. Indeed, these milks are produced industrially with pasteurization that destroys all enzymes as well as phytonutrients and heat-sensitive vitamins degraded by temperatures above 43°C. Additionally, at home, you can use almonds, hazelnuts, tiger nuts, etc., that you have soaked for at least one night, making them much more digestible than dry almonds, tiger nuts, or hazelnuts. Finally, you can use a larger quantity of ingredients than industrial plant-based milks. Read the labels; the quantities of almonds, rice, and hazelnuts will surprise you!
The simplest way to make plant-based milk is to use a powerful blender and a plant milk bag, or a machine to make plant-based milks at low temperature without heating.
What basic equipment is needed to make plant-based milk?
If you use a powerful blender, you can ideally soak the almonds, hazelnuts, tiger nuts, etc., for about one night. Then rinse and pour everything into the blender bowl with 1 liter of water and blend for 2 minutes. You can drink your milk straight from the bowl or strain it through a milk bag to filter out most of the fibers.
How to use plant-based milk?
Due to their mild flavor, plant-based milks offer multiple possibilities in organic and plant-based cooking. They can be used as an ingredient to make smoothies, raw agar agar flans, creams, and coulis. You can also use them as an ingredient in a raw soup, as a base for a sauce, to make a golden latte (golden mellow or golden milk), or a plant-based milk with raw cocoa.
What is the healthiest plant-based milk?
To choose the healthiest plant-based milk for our body, it depends on what you are looking for.
For flavor, tiger nut milk, almond milk, and hazelnut milk are probably the most appreciated, as their taste is very close to that of the nuts used.
Chestnut milk has a mild and subtle flavor.
The most exotic and nourishing is undoubtedly coconut milk, ideally made with fresh coconut.
Rice or oat milk are the sweetest in taste, and they are more laborious to make at home. Rice milk is not raw.
All plant-based milks are less rich in protein than cow's milk. They contain neither lactose nor casein, which are responsible for intestinal flora disorders or intestinal permeability, and should therefore be avoided. The plant-based milks with the highest protein content are hazelnut, oat, and soy milk.
The richest in calcium is almond milk.
The most caloric are oat, rice, and hazelnut milk.
What is the best value for money plant-based milk?
The best nutritional quality/price ratio remains tiger nut milk (tiger nuts cost half as much as almonds or hazelnuts), unbeatable in terms of price if you make it at home, for great nutritional quality.
Our plant-based milk recipe
FRESH COCONUT MILK:
- 1/4 liter of spring water
- 250 g of fresh coconut meat
Instructions:
- Open the coconut, collect the coconut water which is very fragrant.
- Collect the white meat of the coconut, weigh 250 grams.
- Place the coconut pieces in the blender, add the water.
- Blend for 2 minutes to obtain a smooth milk without pieces.
- Ideally, store in the refrigerator and mix well before using it in recipes.
Feel free to add spices to your milk recipes like cinnamon or ginger to enhance the flavor and add more zest to your drink!
