Almond Milk

Homemade almond milk is free of preservatives and can be used for cooking, baking, pouring over cereal, or adding to coffee.

Ingredients

• 1 cups (360 ml) water
• ½ cup (70 g) almonds
• 2 each (30 g) dates, pitted

Directions

1. Place all ingredients into the Vitamix container in the order listed and secure the blade base.
2. Start the blender on its lowest speed, then quickly increase to its highest speed. Blend for 35-45 seconds.

Notes

You may also soak almonds in cold water for 4 hours or overnight. Dates were used to sweeten the milk, but feel free to try honey or other sweeteners instead. To make vanilla almond milk, add vanilla extract or fresh vanilla bean

Nutrition

1 serving (221g)

• Calories: 230

• Total Fat: 18g

• Total Carbohydrate: 13g

  • Dietary Fiber: 5g
  • Sugars: 7g

• Protein: 8g

• Cholesterol: 11.49mg

• Sodium: 10mg