Ingredients
- 1 cup shelled raw nuts/seeds such as almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin, sesame, hemp or sunflower
- 3 cups pure water
- Optional: sweeteners such as brown sugar, jaggery and date syrup.
- Vanilla essence.
Preparation
- Soak nuts or seeds covered in water for at least 8 hours. Drain and rinse.
- Using a mixer, blend the nuts/seeds with water. The water should be carefully added in small quantities or else the milk will turn out too thin.
- Strain the uniformly blended slurry through a fine sieve, pressing and squeezing the solids to extract maximum liquid. This milk (first pressing) is thick and creamy.
- The remaining fibrous solids may be mixed with water again and more milk extracted in the same manner, but it will turn out thinner with each pressing.
- If desired, sweeteners like brown sugar, jaggery or date syrup with or without vanilla essence can be added.