Homemade Oat Milk (with coconut milk)

This Homemade Oat Milk is made from oat groats. It’s mixed with homemade coconut milk, maple syrup, a pinch of salt, and it tastes so good!

When I was trying to decrease our dairy milk intake a while ago, we stumbled on oat milk while traveling in Sweden. That was the first time my family and I tried oat milk.

While we were shopping for food and plant-based milk, we saw nice earthy design milk cartons for oat milk. We bought one, and used it for breakfast and to drink. We were so impressed how delicious that milk was. It was hard to believe that it was made from oats (and of course a few other ingredients they don’t specify).

Not long after we got back to the US, I saw the same brand of oat milk in many stores in the US!

We were excited and bought it from time to time. However, the fact about not knowing if the cartons can be recycled stopped me from further purchases. 

I then tried to make my own Homemade Oat Milk, but didn’t get the taste quite right until I tried mixing it with homemade coconut milk.

The combination of the two kinds of milk, with some maple syrup and a pinch of salt is just perfect to make this Homemade Oat Milk taste delicious.

To make it even better, I use oat groats instead of regular rolled oats that most recipes online use. With the oat groats, I can soak them to reduce phytic acid and to let the groats soften overnight.

I then make my own coconut milk and mix it with the Homemade Oat Milk. I use a combination of about 35% of coconut milk to about 65% of oat milk, and it’s just right. 

You can use this with porridge, smoothies or drink it plain–your choice.

Ready to make your own Homemade Oat Milk? Let me show you how!

Ingredients:

To make homemade coconut milk:

1. 3 cups (710 ml) of dried coconut flakes
2. 4 cups (947 ml) of lukewarm filtered water

To make oat milk:

1. 1 cup (237 ml ) of oat groats
2. 4 cups (947 ml) of filtered water, plus another 4 cups for soaking

To make Homemade Oat Milk (with coconut milk)

1. 2 ½ cups (592 ml) of oat milk
2. 1 ½ cups (355 ml) of coconut milk
3. 2 TBSP (30 ml) of maple syrup
4. ¼ TSP (1.25 ml) of good salt

Instructions:

Making coconut milk:

1. Put lukewarm water in the blender, add coconut flakes, and let it soak for a few minutes.
2. Blend on high speed until smooth, then transfer it into a nut milk bag. Squeeze out all the milk. 
3. Put the milk in a glass jar. Set it aside if you want to use it right away, or refrigerate it for later.

Making oat milk:

1. Rinse oat groats thoroughly, and soak them in filtered water overnight.
2. The next morning, dump the soaking water, rinse them and do a final rinse with filtered water.
3. Put the oat groats in a blender followed by filtered water. Blend it on high speed until fine, and transfer to a nut milk bag. Squeeze out all the milk. Note: You can save the pulp for porridge if you like. I do it all the time and it’s very good.
4. Put the milk in a glass jar and use it right away, otherwise store it in the fridge if you want to use it later.

Making Homemade Oat Milk (with coconut milk)

1. Put 2 ½ cups (592 ml) of oat milk in a blender followed by 1 ½ cups (355 ml) of coconut milk. 
2. Add 2 TBSP (30 ml) of maple syrup and ¼ tsp (1.25 ml) of salt.
3. Blend everything until combined well.
4. Bottle it. Keep it in the fridge where it should stay fresh for 4 days.
5. Enjoy.

Have you made Homemade Oat Milk this way before? Please share it with me–, I’d like to hear about it!