![]() ![]() Our recipes have been designed to rely on fruits and other ingredients that provide as little natural sugar as possible. Cover and refrigerate for up to one week. Voila – after 10-15 minutes you’ll have a gel! Use a tablespoon or two of gel to thicken drinks to your desired consistency. Their ability to absorb liquid is what thickens the drink, but don’t use more than the recommended amount - your drink will turn into a gel!Īdd chia seeds in with other ingredients before blending, or make a chia gel that you can keep on hand in the fridge and use as needed.Ĭombine 4 tablespoons chia seeds with 2 cups water or other liquid, such as coconut water. Chia seeds are also one of the best plant sources of omega-3 fats and can contribute to your daily fiber needs in a big way.Rich in protein, these tiny seeds deliver potassium, magnesium, calcium, and manganese. In white and black varieties, chia seeds are a nutrient powerhouse.Florida avocados (the larger, smooth skinned ones) have slightly fewer calories and fat compared to the smaller California varieties.Ideal for greens drinks, avocado adds good-for-you monounsaturated fat with only 50 calories for 2 tablespoons.If you think avocados are only for guacamole, think again!.Don’t worry) and let’s get our slurrrrp on.Try adding one of these ingredients for a creamier drink and to boost the nutrition profile as well: So, get on your feel-good-pants (they’re not real pants. We all know happy food (or drink) is good food. Who knew you could blend so many happy memories into a cup? A-L-S-O, the sequel, the blender gives this milk an AMAZING, addictive frothy quality which is VRY VRY reminiscient of the fast-food beverage that we all drank while roaming the malls as a teenager. I ask you this: who doesn’t want to drink (4 ingredient! Paleo, vegan AND whole30 compliant!) dessert?Ī-L-S-O, like last years banana vanilla orange smoothie, it tastes like an Orange Julius in the sense that it’s perfectly sweet with notes of creamy vanilla and tangy, bright orange. But, I might question your life choices on that. You could even leave out the dates if you want a “less dessert-like” drink. Wonderful in tea and coffee or over cereal or just to drink as is. But in a slurp-able, drink-able, MEGA creamy form, that has none of that refined sugar (hi naturally sweet dates!) or dairy shenanigans going on. Published: Updated: by Alison Andrews This post may contain affiliate links Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print Recipe Easy step by step guide to making the creamiest dreamiest homemade cashew milk. This creamsicle nut milk, my internet peeps, tastes LIKE THAT. <– I did not actually frolic in fields, just trying to paint a picture for you. Plus, it’s the SUMMER (almost) and summer always reminds me of my young-years frolicking in the fields eating creamsicles. BUT, remember my strawberry milk? Adding flavor is so much better! SRSLY, if you haven’t tried making your own nut milk, you need to put it on your bucket list and then CROSS IT OFF this VERY weekend.Īre you one of those people that always has “BIG PLANS” for what you’re going to get done on the weekend…but then, 4 hours later, you find Netflix asking (read: judging) you if “you’re still watching Drop Dead Diva?” PLUSPLUSPLUS, it’s about FORTY TWO THOUSAND (just a guess) times creamier and has no weird thickeners or oils like some of the brands you’ll find on the counters. It takes less time than putting on real pants (who wants to do that?) and going to the store to buy it. Step two is just as easy-peasy: strain it through a nut milk bag (ain’t nobody want little pieces of nuts caught in their teeth after slurping down a creamy cup of cashew milk) and – POOF – like some ultra-trendy kitchen goddess, Y-O-U have just made your VERY OWN nut milk. It’s REALLY as easy as putting nuts + water in a high-powered blender, pressing “on” and watching as the POWERFUL blades crush up those crunchy nuts and mix them with water like it’s THEIR JOB. Spoiler alert: there is NO actual milking of nuts involved. Obviously milking a nut would abooooout eleventy billion times MORE HARD. ![]() I mean, HOW DO YOU MILK A NUT? I’ve milked a cow before and that is TOUGH STUFF. Have you ever made your own nut milk? I was always “afraid” to because I thought it had to be, liiike, SO HARD. HOMEMADE cashew milk, where have you been all my liiiiife! ❤ ❤ ❤ This quick and easy, creamy cashew milk recipe tastes like a creamsicle! It’s a paleo, vegan and whole30 compliant drink that tastes better than store bought! ![]()
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