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Making this oat milk recipe is easy. It takes 2 ingredients and a few minutes of your time. This homemade version is organic and sprouted.

Lately I have been pretty hooked on oat milk, whether to drink it by itself or to add it to my Chai latte. Because I have organic sprouted rolled oats at home, it’s a no brainer to make my own sprouted oat milk. Watch the video below for how easy it is to make this 2-ingredient oat milk recipe.

Benefits of Homemade Oat Milk

Making oat milk literally takes minutes. It’s quicker than running to the grocery store.
Homemade oat milk doesn’t contain any additives commonly found in commercial products to preserve the oat milk or enhance flavour and consistency.
It’s economical.
You can control what oats to use and choose the healthiest option.

What Oats Do I Use?

I use organic sprouted rolled oats. Sprouted oats are more nutritious and digestible. Rolled oats are pre-cooked and flattened, so they are easy to process in a blender and to extract milk from. This homemade oat milk is organic and sprouted, without any extra effort in sprouting, when you choose already sprouted rolled oats.

Do I Need to Soak The Oats?

No, you shouldn’t soak the oats. Soaking the oats will make the oats soggy and the oat milk more slimy.

When making other plant milks, such as cashew milk or soy milk, I always recommend soaking or sprouting the nuts and seeds. However, making oat milk is a little different and doesn’t require soaking. Rolled oats are already pre-cooked, therefore soaking them at this point won’t do anything to neutralize the anti-nutrients. However, since I use sprouted rolled oats, sprouting had already happened before the oats were steamed and flattened, to provide added health benefit to this recipe.

I am a big proponent for traditional soaking and sprouting when needed, to reduce anti-nutrients in nuts, seeds, legumes and grains. Here are a few examples in practice: fermented cashew cheese, sprouted chickpea and sweet potato hummus, sprouted tofu and making Gaba rice.

How to Make Oat Milk

Process the oats and cold water in a blender for 30 seconds. Do not use warm or hot water, or blend for too long to cause the oat milk to heat up.
Strain the oat milk through a fine mesh strainer, by gently pressing all the liquid through; or through a nut milk bag and then squeeze out the liquid by hands.

Do I Need to Cook The Oat Milk?

No, you shouldn’t heat the oat milk. Cooking or heating the oat milk will thicken it and turn it into the consistency of a porridge or cream sauce. Because rolled oats are partially pre-cooked, you can drink the oat milk without cooking again. Sprouted oats further lose some of the harmful substance present in un-sprouted raw oats, such as phytates.

Storing Oat Milk

Store in the fridge for 3 days, or in the freezer for 3 months.

Leftover Oat Pulp

Use the leftover pulp in baking, or add some water to it to make oatmeal. I like to use my leftover oat pulp in cornmeal buns.