Hazelnut milk
The hazelnut milk is creamy, nutty and so delicious. It is perfect for desserts, coffee, muesli, for drinking on its own or for baking. It can also be used to prepare a delicious chocolate milk that tastes like the popular nut nougat cream. You can make hazelnut milk using just two ingredients with this recipe.
Servings 1.1 l
Equipment
- cheese cloth
Ingredients
- 200 g raw hazelnuts
- 1 l water
- water for soaking
Instructions
- Soak hazelnuts in plenty of water for about 8 hours or overnight.
- Pour off the soaking water and rinse the hazelnuts with clean water.
- Place the hazelnuts and 500 ml of clean water in a blender and mix to a homogeneous mass.
- Pour the mixture through a cheese cloth, collecting the nut milk in a clean container, and squeeze the hazelnut mixture vigorously in the cheese cloth.
- Dilute the nut milk with another 500 ml of clean water.
- Pour the hazelnut milk into a sealable glass bottle and store it in the fridge.
- Shake the bottle with the nut milk before use.
Notes
- Use raw hazelnut kernels to make the nut milk.
- If you have a large blender jug, you can mix 1 liter of water directly with the hazelnuts without having to dilute the nut milk later.
- You can sweeten the nut milk to taste with dates, agave syrup or maple syrup.
- See the detailed tips and tricks for making the hazelnut milk at the top of the article.