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.
More Easy Vegan DIY Recipes
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- Vegan Buttermilk
- Vegan Condensed Milk
- Homemade Vegan Butter
- Vegan Heavy Cream Substitute
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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.
Paola says
Made it and it came out delicious, loved the recipe! Thank you for all tips. I was wondering, did you ever add the leftover oats to any recipe? cookies? I was looking forward of doing something with it so it wont go to waste.
Alison Andrews says
Hi Paola, yes we have a section of the blog post that has ideas of what to do with the leftover pulp and a link to some cookies you can make with it! 🙂
Elena says
I don’t have a high speed blender, can I use an immersion blender instead?
Alison Andrews says
I don’t think that would be powerful enough to break down the oats unfortunately.
Laurie says
I just made this, but I halved the recipe. I used my immersion blender and it worked just fine. Delicious!
Alison Andrews says
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Laurie! 🙂
Guy Russell says
Delicious and easy just as described. I found it a bit bland so next time I’ll add more maple syrup and salt per Allison’s suggestion. I might even try some chocolate syrup.
Alison Andrews says
Oooh chocolate syrup might be very tasty! Thanks for sharing Guy! 🙂
Serra says
Adding 3 T Torani Dark Chocolate Syrup made it taste just like store-bought dark chocolate oat milk. It’s AMAZING.
Alison Andrews says
Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing Serra! 🙂
Jennifer says
Can you bake with this, or make a “cream” sauce?
Alison Andrews says
Hi Jennifer, as mentioned it tends to clump when heated, so it’s not ideal for that.
Linda M says
Thank you! I’ve tried both soaking the oats and not, and this works best, without all the waste of water and nutients lost to soaking. I was having trouble reliably finding store bought Oat Milk in my store and also not impressed with the additives, so glad to now be making my own!
Alison Andrews says
Awesome Linda! So happy to hear this! Thanks for the wonderful review. 🙂
Guy Russell says
Hello Alison. Made your oat milk. Very easy and delicious. I did find it a bit bland. Any suggestions for perking up the flavors? More maple syrup?
Alison Andrews says
Sure, a little more maple syrup and a little more salt should take care of that.
Chris says
Thanks for the great recipe!
By the way, what’s the song that plays along with the video? I couldn’t seem to find it anywhere — and neither could Shazam!
Alison Andrews says
Hi Chris, so glad you like the recipe! I don’t know the name of the song, my husband buys the royalty free music, but we don’t tend to keep track of the song names. 🙂
Kristin Dunlap says
10-yo daughter and I both love this! So easy and good! Thank you!
Alison Andrews says
Fantastic! Thanks Kristin. 🙂
Heather says
Does it yield 4 cups of oat milk or close to that?
Alison Andrews says
Yes should be around 4 cups or a little over. 🙂
Lynne Stephens says
Thanks for this recipe! What is the best way to clean a nut milk bag?
Alison Andrews says
Hi Lynne, I find just turning it inside out and rinsing it and then running a soapy sponge over it does the trick. 🙂
Ana says
That is the BEST oat milk recipe! SO easy and and fast! Thank you !
Alison Andrews says
Fantastic! Thanks Ana! 🙂
Steve says
Best oat milk recipe have soaked the oats before and it has been watery. I’m blending fast in a blendtec for 45 secs with dates added great in coffee. Use a nut milk bag much easier. I use the strained oats in breakfast porridge (in England you may call this something else on your side of the pond!) Thanks
Alison Andrews says
So glad you like the recipe Steve! Thanks so much for posting and the great review. 🙂
Angela says
Great, 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.
Alison Andrews says
Hi 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. 🙂
Valentina says
what do you do with the oat that you strained after?
Alison Andrews says
I 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!
Mia Turner says
Worked 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.
Alison Andrews says
Hope it works out well this time! 🙂