Going nuts

My favourite home-made nut-milk:

Cashew-Coconut-Milk (or optional with brazil nuts)

Recipe for a super-delicious self-made coffee-whitener, healthy cereal addition or just plain goodness.

It’s fun, it’s easy and it helps saving the planet! Yay :)

Makes: 2 1/2 cups (about 600ml)

Make time: 5-10 min + Soaking time (8h or over night)

Equipment required: Blender, nut-milk-bag or cheese cloth, clean bottle(s)

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (80g) Cashews (soaked for 8h) /optional replace half of the Cashews with Brazil nuts (also soaked for 8h) for a milk-like and creamier texture

• 1/2 (50g) cup dried Coconut (soaked for 8h)

• 2 cups (0,5l) filtered water

• pinch of sea salt

• pinch of vanilla bean powder or splash of vanilla bean extract

• optional – 1/8-1/4 tsp Cinnamon

• optional – 2 tsp maple syrup or 1 pitted date

Instructions:

Drain the soaked nuts into a sieve and rinse thoroughly. Add drained nuts into a blender with all the other ingredients. Blend on high about 2 minutes until well combined.

Strain through a fine nut-milk-bag over a pan or bowl with a nozzle. Make sure to really press and drain the “milk” out of the nut-pulp. Fill the “milk” into a clean bottle with a lid and keep in the refrigerator. Enjoy your fresh milk in coffee, chai latte, cereals or just as a refreshing drink. Keeps in the fridge for 2-3 days. (If it is standing for a while, give it a good shake before using)

Tips:

Add a tsp cocoa-powder to the mixture and enjoy a healthy chocolate-drink!

The remaining pulp goes well in your breakfast-cereals or as a delicious base for nut-bars and cakes.

Important note from the ♡: We are facing times where the massive impact of animal abusing and exploitation for more than 5 decades collapses and we should not only think about alternatives – it is mandatory to actively participate in a change of thinking AND especially change our habits of consuming. Vegan diet is not a trend or something for the hipsters and yogis out there, it is our natural food-source as human beings, the way it all was meant to be!

Please contribute to rescue the planet, animals and nature, it will rescue ourselves!