Unsweetened Almond Milk – Recipe, Properties and Calories
Ingredients to make unsweetened almond milk – Recipe, properties and calories:
- ¾ cup shelled raw Marconi almonds
- 2¼ cups of filtered or bottled water
- 1 tablespoon vanilla essence or extract (optional)
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup (optional)
How to make unsweetened almond milk – Recipe, properties and calories:
- Place the almonds in a cup or bowl and cover with water. Here it is not necessary to measure it or anything, the water simply has to cover them so that they hydrate by leaving them to soak overnight (about 8-12 hours), so the nuts, in addition to being enzymatically activated, will be much softer the next day and we will get a vegetable almond milk much more easily.
- Trick: I have used the already peeled Marconi almond variety because it has less bitterness and a sweeter flavor.
- The next morning you will see how the nuts have swollen due to hydration.
- Drain the almonds with a strainer until all the water is completely removed.
- Place the soaked almonds in an electric mixer or blender along with the filtered water and the vanilla essence (this is optional). The ratio is always 1 part almonds to 3 parts water, and since I’ve soaked 3/4 cup of nuts in this case, I’ve added 2 and 1/4 cups of water.
- Tip: I recommend that you do not prepare the almond milk recipe with unfiltered tap water so that it does not affect the flavor.
- Add maple syrup if you want to sweeten your refined unsweetened almond milk a bit more. Actually, it is not necessary to add any sugar or essence to flavor this vegetable drink, but if you like it to have a sweet taste you can use maple syrup like I did, or other sweeteners that are healthier than white sugar, such as stevia, agave syrup or natural dates.
- Blend the homemade almond milk until smooth. If you can’t make it completely crushed, you have the option of straining it through a fine strainer or filtering it through a special bag to make vegetable drinks (nut milk bag), but think that in this way the fiber of the nuts will remain in the strainer and not in the vegetable drink and, therefore, it will not be as healthy and nutritious as if it had all the fiber from the almonds.
- Trick: If you use raw almonds with skin, the step of straining them will be absolutely necessary so that the skins do not go into the milk.
- Use the unsweetened almond milk recipe to drink it alone or to make other preparations such as:
- Almond milk rice
- Easy golden milk or golden milk
- Sweet quinoa with almond milk
- almond custard
- Chocolate and banana smoothie bowl
- A glass (250 ml) of this vegan milk has approximately 63 calories since 100 ml of unsweetened almond milk contains 25 calories, therefore, we can consider this vegetable drink much healthier, nutritious and low in fat and added sugar than those sold already prepared or whole cow’s milk that has 65 calories per 100 ml. So this almond milk does not make you fat or lose weight on its own.
- Trick: With the amount of ingredients in this recipe, approximately 750 ml to 1 liter of almond milk will come out (depending on the water that the nuts have absorbed when soaking them).
