Creamy and delicious oat milk! This homemade oat milk recipe is 5 easy ingredients, ready in minutes, and delicious in tea or coffee or poured over cereal.
It’s so easy to make your own homemade oat milk!
All you need is some rolled oats in your cupboard and you’re good to go.
Add some maple syrup, or other syrup of your choice, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt for some optional extra flavoring, blend it all up and strain it through a nut milk bag!
It has a lovely neutral oaty taste that is delicious to drink as is or to use in smoothies or over cereal or in your coffee and tea.
To soak or not to soak?
A lot of recipes for how to make oat milk recommend soaking the rolled oats first and then rinsing them very well to remove any sliminess before blending. Yes, oats get slimy. It’s weird.
But I actually found in experimenting that the best results came about from not soaking the oats at all. It’s also quicker this way.
When I soaked them first and then rinsed them, the result was really slimy. But when I just blended them without soaking, there was minimal slime. Okay I know that still sounds gross, minimal slime? So there’s still slime? Haha yes, a little, not in the end result, but when you’re straining them through that nut milk bag, it’s going to feel a little slimy.
I have heard that over-blending can cause sliminess as well, though I did not experience this at all, but just beware of this as a possibility. Blend only as much as needed, which tends to be around a minute to get everything nicely blended in.
Straining your oat milk
If you’re straining through a nut milk bag, (often also called a nut mylk bag), then it’s super quick and easy to do. If you don’t have a nut milk bag you can strain it through cheesecloth placed over a strainer.
However, if homemade milks are something you plan to make regularly, then investing in a nut mylk bag is very worthwhile.
This is the nut mylk bag I have and am very happy with.
Delicious in tea, coffee or over cereal
This homemade oat milk is great in tea or coffee or over cereal. However, it’s not great heated as it tends to get quite thick and clumpy when you heat it.
So you can add it to hot drinks and that’s fine, but don’t heat it up before adding it to hot drinks. 
What do you do with the leftover oat pulp?
A reader commented that they add it to pancake batter to create a nuttier tasting version (awesome idea, thanks Susan!).
You can also use the pulp to make cookies. I found a great recipe for Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pulp Cookies that does exactly this.
This recipe doesn’t result in a huge amount of leftover pulp so you’re also fine to just throw it away unless that is something that goes against the grain for you. If that’s the case then bake some cookies or throw it into some pancakes!
You will love this oat milk recipe, it is:
- Creamy
- Delicious
- Great in coffee or tea or over cereal
- So easy to make
Keep it in the fridge where it will stay fresh for up to 5 days. Shake it up before use as it tends to separate in the fridge, don’t worry this is normal, give it a good shake and enjoy.
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Homemade Oat Milk
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 4 cups
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Creamy and delicious oat milk! This homemade oat milk recipe is 5 easy ingredients, ready in minutes, and delicious in tea or coffee or poured over cereal.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (90g) Rolled Oats
- 4 cups (960ml) Water
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 2 Tbsp Maple Syrup
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients to your blender and blend until well blended. About a minute.*
- Strain through a nut mylk bag or place cheesecloth over a strainer and strain it through that.
- Store the milk in the fridge where it will stay fresh for up to 5 days. Shake it well before use.
- Use in your tea or coffee or pour over cereal.
Notes
*Don’t soak your oats first, I found this caused sliminess, no matter how much they were rinsed.
*Don’t overblend as apparently it can also cause the oats to become slimy though I have not personally experienced this. About a minute of blending is usually sufficient.
*Don’t heat the milk as it causes it to get very thick. It can be added to hot drinks like tea and coffee though.
*This recipe is gluten-free as long as you use gluten-free rolled oats.
- Category: Beverage
- Method: Blend
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 114
- Sugar: 6.3g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 1.4g
- Saturated Fat: 0.2g
- Carbohydrates: 21.9g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Protein: 2.9g
Keywords: oat milk
Kostas says
April 5, 2019 at 12:55 amPersonally I don’t find Oat milk slimy, especially compared to other foods that we have been brainwashed to eat that are even more slimy, meat, fat, etc… Kudos for posting this delicious recipe and focus on plant based milks! ?
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Alison Andrews says
April 5, 2019 at 10:38 amFantastic! Yes, I agree it’s not slimy in the end result, but sometimes the nut mylk bag can feel a little slimy, but it doesn’t have an impact on the actual oat milk that you get. Thanks for posting! 🙂
Janna says
April 15, 2019 at 12:04 amDelicious! And I agree that the results were not slimy at all. The only drawback was that the cheesecloth was so-o-o slow to the point where it stopped straining the milk altogether. Is a nut mylk bag any better (faster)?
Thanks again for the awesome recipe!
Alison Andrews says
April 15, 2019 at 9:13 amHi Janna, so glad it turned out well! A nut mylk bag is super quick to use, it goes through in seconds and you give it a couple squeezes and it’s done. So definitely worthwhile if you’re going to make your own plant milks regularly. 🙂
Karen says
April 25, 2019 at 7:39 amCan I use a food processor instead of a blender for this?
Thank you!
Alison Andrews says
April 26, 2019 at 9:37 amHi Karen, I really don’t think so, it won’t be strong enough to blend the oats as finely as they need to blend to turn this into oat milk.
Cheryl says
May 1, 2019 at 1:26 amI just found out that I have a long list of food sensitivities…but oats are okay! I’m so glad I found this. I will try it tomorrow (not enough on hand). My question is: is there any possible use for the leftovers in the cheesecloth or is it just not viable at that point?
Alison Andrews says
May 1, 2019 at 9:13 amHi Cheryl, there is really not that much left over, but some have used the pulp in their oatmeal cookies! 🙂
Cheryl says
May 4, 2019 at 3:11 amHi Alison! I just made my first batch of oatmeal milk; I’m very pleased. I wondered if 4 cups is too much but it isn’t; I trusted your recipe. Really curious to see how it’ll taste in my morning coffee! Thanks again for posting this wonderful recipe. It’s homemade with ingredients I can pronounce easily, and not watery as most ‘glutiny’ store-bought alternatives are.
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Alison Andrews says
May 4, 2019 at 6:37 amAwesome Cheryl! So happy you liked it, thanks for the wonderful review! xo
Debbie says
May 1, 2019 at 10:43 pmHi, If using a Blendtec or Vitamix is one minute overblending? Also, can quick oats be used or do they need to be old fashioned oats? Thank you.
Alison Andrews says
May 2, 2019 at 6:20 amHi Debbie, I used a Vitamix, so that’s fine. You don’t have to time a minute, just around about that much, just make sure it’s well mixed, it will be quite easy to see that it is. Old fashioned (rolled oats) are definitely the ones to use. All the best! 🙂
Debbie says
May 2, 2019 at 6:32 amThank you!
Debbie says
May 1, 2019 at 10:45 pmIs the oat mik good in smoothies? Thank you.
Alison Andrews says
May 2, 2019 at 6:20 amSure!
Debbie says
May 2, 2019 at 2:02 pmHi, Are you blending on high? Thank you
Alison Andrews says
May 3, 2019 at 6:20 amI would usually do a normal blend, I won’t switch it to high, except maybe right at the end. But on a Vitamix it’s blending at speed anyway.
Susan hall says
May 5, 2019 at 4:12 pmMade the oatmilk recipe of yours with a few tweaks and a suggestion. I added whole dates without the pits of course as well adding coconut palm sugar for a more natural drink. Once I put it through my strainer i saved the mush as I call it and added it to my pancake batter for a healthier,nuttier pancake,they were a hit,plus I wasted nothing in the process. Thank you so much for the recipe.
Alison Andrews says
May 5, 2019 at 4:14 pmAwesome! Thanks for sharing! xo
Susan hall says
May 5, 2019 at 4:20 pmThank you for your recipe! Made a couple of substitutions for I am not crazy about maple syrup or the added sugar so tweaked for a more natural drink by adding dates and coconut palm sugar as well a few raisins and a dash of cinnamon. As for the mash as I call it after straining I added it to my pancake batter for a healthier,nuttier breakfast. They were a hot. I am a waste not want not person who wants to get every use I can out of the foods I make.
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Louise says
May 19, 2019 at 3:31 amCan this be made with oat groats instead of rolled oats?
Alison Andrews says
May 20, 2019 at 4:06 pmHi Louise, I haven’t tried it but I did a bit of googling and apparently you can! So let us know how it goes. 🙂
Mia Turner says
May 24, 2019 at 1:04 amWorked well. Hoping to ditch store bought milk that is full of fluoride and other nasties! Make sure you use organic ingredients and rainwater if possible. Municipal water contains fluoride and chlorine in most parts of the world.
Added all ingreds and blended on high for exactly 1 min. Strained through some muslin cloth.
The mix tastes good, but is a bit watery so I don’t think this will work well in my tea. I will increase to 1.5 cups of organic quick oats and see what happens.
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Valentina says
June 1, 2019 at 2:22 pmwhat do you do with the oat that you strained after?
Alison Andrews says
June 2, 2019 at 11:12 amI usually throw it out as it’s not a lot in terms of volume at all. But other readers have commented that they make use of it. If you read the other comments you can get some ideas, like adding it to pancake batter, I also just added a link to a recipe for chocolate chip oat pulp cookies which uses the pulp to make cookies!
Angela says
June 4, 2019 at 5:18 pmGreat, easy to follow recipe. I was wondering, though, how do you calculate the calories? I am counting right now, and various recipes with the same ratios (1 cup oats to 4 cups water) all have very different calories listed in the nutrition.
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Alison Andrews says
June 5, 2019 at 8:36 amHi Angela, I use cronometer for my calculations and do everything manually. A lot of recipes will auto calculate the nutritional info (which is usually less accurate in my experience). If you want things really accurate then it’s usually best to calculate yourself using the exact ingredients/brands that you’re using. 🙂