Today, I was thrilled! This is the first time I'm making almond milk!
I wanted to try this since the first time I saw the making of almond milk using slow juicer on YouTube... I searched online for recipe and each have a different saying...
Some say 1 cup of almonds to 1 cup of water, others have 1 cup of almonds to 3 to 4 cups of water...
Some say reserve the soaking water to juice it together... Some say do not use the soaking water but fresh new water when juicing...
For me, I started the preparation since last night. I soaked 1.5 cup of almonds in 3 cups of warm drinking water and let it stand overnight...
After 12 hours, the soaking water turned brownish but with a light almond fragrance... Seriously, I was tempted to reuse this water for juicing as I believe there's rich nutrients from the soaked almond... However, I didn't want my first almond milk to turn out brownish, so I replaced it with drinking water.
After soaking overnight, the almonds had grown in size... It's 2 cups of almond in the morning, so I used 7 cups of water to juice for almond milk... (Maybe its too diluted? I didn't know until I try but I didn't want to spoil my juicer when it's merely 11 days old with me... So let's just try!!
Here's the video of the 'grounding' of soaked almonds, using A*Juicer. The noise level was acceptable (at least my girl was still sleeping, while we were happily trying to juice almond milk).
I didn't managed to measure the exact amount if milk made from this batch of almonds as simple maths could tell that 7 cups of water + 2 cups of almonds would easily exceed the 4 cup capacity of the container... Wahahaha! Here's the huge amount of milk yielded from this proportion of 'recipe' (with extremely dry pulp). It's not very rich taste of almond but with a light fragrance of it. In terms of its texture, it's just like fresh milk. I'd probably cut down the proportion of drinking water for juicing during the next batch to see if it could taste richer :)
And don't forget about the cleaning up! Nothing much was left inside the juicer so cleaning was a breeze today! *Clap Clap*
I was getting happier with this juicer the moment it passed the almond milk test... Wahahaha!! Next on my trial list would be soy milk... If you are longing for a good slow juicer, my humble advise to you would be, why not try this A*Juicer ^^
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