This creamy and delicious homemade oat milk recipe is made with 2-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!
It has a lovely neutral oaty taste that is delicious to drink as is or to use in smoothies, over cereal, or in your coffee and tea.
All you need is some rolled oats in your cupboard and you’re good to go. Rolled oats blended with water = oat milk!
You can also add a little maple syrup, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt for some optional extra flavoring, but the main ingredients are simply rolled oats and water.
How To Make Oat Milk
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
- Add all the ingredients to the blender jug and blend for around 1 minute until well blended.
- Strain it through a nut milk bag and you have a creamy and delicious homemade plant milk to use as you please.
Tips For The Best Homemade Oat Milk
- Don’t soak the oats first. A lot of recipes recommend soaking your 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. So just add your oats and water to the blender (plus optional flavorings) and blend!
- Don’t over-blend. Over-blending can also cause the oat milk texture to feel slimy. So you just want to blend it well enough and then stop blending. Usually 1 minute of blending will be more than enough.
- Strain your oat milk. I strain it through a nut milk bag (also sometimes called a nut mylk bag). This is the nut mylk bag I have and am very happy with. To get really smooth oat milk you may even want to strain it twice. You can also strain it through a thin tea towel.
- Don’t heat your oat milk. 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 To Do With 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.
Storing Tips
Keep it stored 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 Vegan Butter
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Homemade Oat Milk
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rolled Oats (90g)
- 4 cups Water (960ml)
- ¼ teaspoon Salt Optional
- 2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup Optional
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract Optional
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients to your blender and blend until well blended. Don't blend for more than 1 minute.
- Strain through a nut milk bag or a tea towel.
- 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.
Video
Notes
- Don’t soak your oats first, I found this caused sliminess, no matter how much they were rinsed.
- Don’t overblend as it can also cause the oats to become slimy. You shouldn’t need to blend for more than a minute.
- Don’t heat the milk as it causes it to get very thick and clumpy. 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.
Louise says
Can this be made with oat groats instead of rolled oats?
Alison Andrews says
Hi Louise, I haven’t tried it but I did a bit of googling and apparently you can! So let us know how it goes. 🙂
Susan hall says
Thank 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.
Susan hall says
Made 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
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! xo
Debbie says
Hi, Are you blending on high? Thank you
Alison Andrews says
I 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.
Debbie says
Is the oat mik good in smoothies? Thank you.
Alison Andrews says
Sure!
Debbie says
Hi, 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
Hi 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
Thank you!
Cheryl says
I 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
Hi Cheryl, there is really not that much left over, but some have used the pulp in their oatmeal cookies! 🙂
Cheryl says
Hi 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.
Alison Andrews says
Awesome Cheryl! So happy you liked it, thanks for the wonderful review! xo
Karen says
Can I use a food processor instead of a blender for this?
Thank you!
Alison Andrews says
Hi 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.
Janna says
Delicious! 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
Hi 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. 🙂
Kostas says
Personally 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! ?
Alison Andrews says
Fantastic! 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! 🙂
Brenda says
Forgot lol! Can you bake with this milk in recipes? Like muffins? I understand you cannot heat milk for drinking but think it may be ok for baking muffins etc….?
Alison Andrews says
Hi Brenda, I am not sure. I know that it clumps and goes thick and weird when you heat it, which may not make a difference in a baked good but it also might! I haven’t tried it in baking, so I’m not sure!
Brenda says
GREAT answer. I’ll give it a go and let you know in weeks ahead…thx for all you do.Brenda
Alison Andrews says
Awesome! Thanks Brenda! 🙂
Brenda says
Hi there! Quick question. HOW LONG can you keep this milk refrigerated? thanks
Alison Andrews says
Hi Brenda, up to 5 days in the fridge, it does tend to separate in the fridge, so give it a good shake before using.
brenda says
Thanks!
Victor says
If I am not mistaken the soaking (and rinsing) is suggested in other recipes in order to dilute the phytic acid content of the oats.
It is said that Phytic acid interferes with the digestion of the minerals/etc in the oats..
Alison Andrews says
That may be true, but it’s not something I am too worried about since you would usually just eat the oats as is without soaking, so why not drink the oat milk without soaking the oats first and save some time. 🙂 Also the extra sliminess from soaking was not something I was keen on.
Nathan says
Loved the recipe!! Can you also please let me know the song name??? It’s been stuck in head and I need to hear the full song, thank you ❤️??
Alison Andrews says
Hi Nathan, Mel helpfully answered that question in a comment above, it is called: ‘Doo Wop Does He” by Grace Mesa. We buy our music on premium beats so sometimes I don’t know offhand what the songs are called. 🙂 So glad you like the recipe! 🙂
Ida says
Hi I love watching your videos! They are so simple and easy to make at home. One question not regarding the post: what’s the name of the song in the video? Thanks!
Alison Andrews says
Hi Ida, thanks very much! I don’t know the name of the song, we buy all our music for videos on Premium Beats and it’s just a loop it doesn’t necessarily state the song name, and would require some searching to find out. All the best. 🙂
Mel says
The name of the song found on Premium Beats is “Doo Wop Does He” by Grace Mesa.
It’s lovely!
Alison Andrews says
Oh thanks for tracking that down Mel! 🙂