How to Make Oat Milk

4.75 from 8 votes

This homemade oat milk recipe only calls for 2 main ingredients in order to get super smooth (never slimy) oat milk!

Prep Time30

Cook Time0

Total Time30

Course: Drink

Cuisine: American

Keyword: oat milk

Servings:

First, place dates, water, and salt into a high-speed blender and blend until dates are completely pulverized and blended into the water.
Next, place rolled oats into the blender and blend for about 1 minute on high until oats are broken up, but not pulverized. If you pulverize the oats too much you will end up with a filmy and slimy consistency (believe me, this has happened to us!).
Next, place a tea towel or nut milk bag (or any other very thin towel) over the top of a tall mason jar or pitcher.
Slowly pour oat milk mixture into the tea towel to strain out oat fragments. You may have to squeeze the towel a bit to push the oat milk through the towel. Repeat until all oat milk has strained through the towel (be patient, sometimes this takes a while).
Place a cover on the mason jar and store oat milk in the refrigerator for up to 7 days.

Sweetener: feel free to leave out the Medjool dates if you don't like sweet oat milk. You can also sub in maple syrup or honey to taste.
Do not soak the rolled oats before blending: We found that soaking the oats before blending left a slimy film on the oats.
Do not blend until the oats have dissolved: this will cause your oat milk to have a strange slimy and pulpy consistency.