Almond Mylk Recipe

The greengirls.com. -- kitchen at – and Hartford and today, we’re going to do something really simple and easy and you might want to know how to do it. These are organic almonds. I actually love California almonds even though there’s an issue with the pasteurization. We want to make sure that we’re getting raw almonds and they are able to sort it, a little bit more difficult but it is possible and so we’re going to use these raw almonds, we’re going to soak them in filtered water and then we’re going to put them in our vitamix. Right here, I’ve got about two cups of these almonds with up to six cups of the filtered water and we don’t want to put it all the way to the top of the blender because as you’re going to see, when you turn it on, it fills up and foams and expands quite a bit so here we go, we’re going to blend the nuts, the almonds and you can do this really with any nut milk. I’m using almond, you can use hemp seeds, you can use walnuts, you can use Brazil nuts but for today, we’re using almonds and we’re going to use it with the water only and mix it up. So here we go, we’re blending them on high, you really want a couple minutes blending. You want to blend them until they get the white milky color. Blend that for about a minute. Here we have fresh almond milk so this is not pasteurized. It’s not packed and it’s totally fresh, you can drink it like this, you can add it to granola. You can use it in your smoothies. So for a smoothie to be raw, you need to have either raw almond milk that you made yourself like this, fresh squeezed orange juice, grapefruit juice or any kind of milk. Whether it’s hemp, walnut but that’s what you want to use when you make your raw smoothie. That will get you away from packaged process thing that we’re trying to avoid. You see how simple and easy it is. You’re just going to get nut milk bag and have a good blender and if you need to sweeten it, you can add either some ultimate raw agave or you can add some dates. So we’re going to actually take this almond milk that we just made and we’re going to take a lot of raw foods which is my other favorite organic live company and they are in the United States, blue mountain organic so we’re taking the chickpeas and we’re using 1/3 cup and don’t ever really measure. I just kind of guess. So we’re going to do that and we’re going to add in about two cups of our almond milk and the best and easiest thing to do, this is chickpeas, they’re super nutritious and super delicious and they make a kind of like a tapioca pudding and so what we’re going to do is mix this, get the almond milk and the easy thing is to get a container with a secure lid and just shake it around and as you’re working on another recipe in the kitchen, you start something else and multitasking to the max. So we shake it around, work on cutting up the foods that we’re going to add to our pudding and every 10 minutes or so, give it a shake. Then when you come back, it will be like a gelatin – that’s reminding me I forgot to put the agave in because I didn’t add it to the almond milk. So what I’m going to do is use my ultimate raw agave. Squeeze a little bit in, we don’t need a lot of sweeteners. We go very very light on oil and sugar and then I’m just going shake it up and mix it up and again come back to this for two minutes because if you leave it and forget about it, it’s going to turn into one big clump. Here’s the end result of the pudding. See how it thickens, it gets almost like a tapioca pudding consistency not that I’ve ever eaten tapioca pudding but kind of this thick consistency, I love to add fresh fruits. This is the good alternative for breakfast treat if you’re using to eating breakfast in the morning until you get into the habit of making juice or a live smoothie. So here are our soaked and sprouted dehydrated walnuts. This is the only way we’re eating them. They taste entirely different, light, oily, it’s amazing, after you soaked off all the enzyme inhibitors so a way that I do this is I take my nuts and these need to be really dry and dehydrated. We talked about before the importance of not having moisture in the nut and the dried fruit especially when you’re going to seal it up so we want to make sure that we get all that moisture out. In a bowl, I’m mixing some cinnamon, a little bit of nutmeg and some ultimate raw Himalayan salts. Just a tiny bit and then I’m mixing agave, ultimate raw agave and I’m going to make it like a syrup. We’re going to mix this agave cinnamon mixture creating like a caramelized-these are my caramelized walnuts that we’re making here and we’re going to add this to some tortilla pudding so I’m just creating like a syrupy mixture coating these walnuts with a cinnamon sauce. So I’m going to mix the walnuts in and thoroughly coat it. You see how simple that is, now this is one that you would require dehydrated because you would have had to have dehydrated the walnuts and then also this is a really gooey mixture as you can see so I’m going to put these back in the dehydrator for a couple of hours, again, this is like a cinnamon roll treat. If you’re like a cinnamon fiend like I am, I love cinnamon, the circulation keeps you warm and some of us need to be warm quite often. Sometimes eating raw food makes you feel a little chilly and so you want to add some spice into your diet so some of these spices are a good way to do that. So I’m trying to really coat this so that all the nooks and crannies and the crevices of the walnut are coated with the cinnamon sauce. Basically again, simple ingredients, cinnamon, nutmeg, agave, real agave and the salt and mixing it on top of the nuts and then I’m going to stick it into the dehydrator for a couple of hours and they’re going to come out caramelized like a treat. Put it on top of the pudding, my kids if I don’t get to them before they do, they’re all gone. So my kids love to just eat these by the handful. That’s it. Simple and easy. We’re going to spread it out on the dehydrator on one of our – sheets so it doesn’t stick and fall through and put it in for a couple of hours until it’s hard and I spread them out. That’s one big clump and voila.