How To Make Peanut Milk

groundnut milk

Groundnut Milk

raw groundnuts

Raw Groundnuts

Anybody else bored with the flat taste of fresh moo-cow milk? I but like cow milk for chocolate drinks, cereals and oatmeals and of class for baking. Merely drinking only fresh cow milk? Not me. I am non allergic to moo-cow milk merely I find information technology tasteless and then I ever look to Soy Milk, Rice Milk and Groundnut (Peanut Milk) when I want to potable just milk. All these have a special nutty or grain flavor that I beloved. Not so boring like evidently cow milk. If y'all are vegetarian or lactose intolerant so Groundnut Milk volition be not bad news for you lot too.
How to make Groundnut Milk [Video]
Groundnuts (Peanuts) are rich in protein and should be a great characteristic in our daily diet. For me, Groundnut Milk is the best style to go the nutritional benefits of groundnuts without chewing. I commonly go for foods that I can drink or swallow much more that the foods I have to chew.

Ingredients for making Groundnut (Peanut) Milk

Raw Peanuts (Groundnuts)
Cool h2o

Optional flavours:

Vanilla extract
Saccharide

Notes on the ingredients

I merely keep this milk for 48 hours maximum in the refrigerator so I normally brand the quantity I can finish within that flow. If I do non boil it, I only brand the quantity I tin end in one day. I get 600mls of Groundnut Milk with 300g of raw groundnuts.
I always purchase peeled raw groundnuts (peanuts) but if y'all can only buy unpeeled ones, see step 1 in the directions for how to remove the skin.
When blending the soaked peanuts (see step 2 in the directions beneath), just add enough water to aid the blades of your blender motility. Yous will add together more water afterwards when rinsing the chaff.
If you will utilize the flavours, add together them when blending the groundnuts. I prefer the unadulterated natural delicious gustatory modality of Groundnut Milk.
Raw groundnuts, corn, cassava and many other food items may incorporate aflatoxins which are said to be produced if the food item is contaminated with a sure kind of mould. To eliminate the hazard of these aflatoxins which tin touch human health, eddy the Groundnut Milk earlier drinking. It is OK to drink it raw considering the corporeality of aflatoxins in nutrient is said to exist negligible.

Tools

To blend it, you lot'll need a kitchen blender. My blender has 600W ability and it did a great job of blending the soaked groundnuts.
To strain it you lot'll demand a bowl and a chiffon cloth or ladies stocking/tights (pantyhose without the panty).
To boil it you'll demand a pot, a stove and a spatula.

Directions for making Groundnut Milk

Rinse and soak the groundnuts in a generous quantity of cool h2o for 3 hours.
If yous are using unpeeled groundnuts:
- Cascade warm to hot water on the peanuts and leave for a few minutes or till you observe the skin go amorphous.
- Cascade out the hot water and replace with cool water.
- Rub the groundnuts between your palms and watch the skin come off.
- Once they accept all come off, decant the skin in the same manner of decanting beans peels when peeling beans.
- Cascade cool water into the bowl of peeled groundnuts and leave to soak for 3 hours.
After 3 hours, alloy with every bit petty water as possible till polish.
Sieve with a cheese cloth or any chiffon material that does non allow the chaff to laissez passer through.
Pour the milk into a pot and melt over medium heat till it boils. Stir oftentimes so that lumps do not form.
Once it boils, exit to cool downwardly completely, remove the milk pare and serve chilled or at room temperature.

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Serve Groundnut Milk with Akara, Puff Puff or any other Nigerian Snack. I store the boiled one for upwardly to 48 hours in the fridge and the raw ane, I drink upwardly immediately. Relish!