You've heard of dairy-free milks made from soy, rice, and almonds, but how about quinoa milk? It's rich, nutty, and nutritious, too!
We haven't made quinoa milk at home before, but judging from a post at Om Nom Ally, the process is very easy. Ally soaked quinoa overnight, cooked it on the stove, then blended it with water, added vanilla and cinnamon, and strained it through a nut milk bag. (A fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth would also work.)
For a sweeter milk, you could add sugar, agave nectar, or honey. Also note that using white quinoa without any cinnamon or vanilla would yield a lighter colored milk. It should last for several days in the refrigerator.
Get the recipe: Cinnamon Quinoa Milk at Om Nom Ally
Related: Hot Rice Breakfast Drink
(Image: Om Nom Ally)
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Actually, no, you can't make "milk" from quinoa. You can't make milk from soy, rice, coconut, or almonds either. You can only make milk from milk. I dont know what you would call this brown, watery, drink. Quinoa juice maybe.
@Operator: In Canada, it's called a soy/almond/rice beverage since labelling rules forbid the use the the term milk for something that's actually not 100% pure milk.
@operator
Hi, linguist here. Over time, meanings of words change based on their everyday usage by speakers of whatever the language in question is. This concept is called semantic drift . Did you know that the English word 'lady' once referred only to women who kneaded bread? Just like we can use 'lady' to refer to any woman today, we can use 'milk' to refer to any milk-like substance/ alternative even though it may not be liquid secreted from the mammary glands of a mammal because that is what most of English-speaking society has conventionalised.
So in short, yes, you can "brown, watery drink" milk.
I'll stick to milk!
*you can call
(Apologies for the bolding error as well. Not trying to be obnoxious)
In Peru they don't strain the quinoa out of this kind of drink.
Eemmiillyy- linguistically, yes... but chemically (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14356007.a16_589.pub3/full) and legally, perhaps not.
@Christine M., is that why Food Basics sells "Chocolate Dairy Beverage" instead of chocolate milk? That always squicks me out.
Here in Australia we have a lot of different names for non-dairy beverages - it could be labelled as e.g. "soy milk", "rice drink", "quinoa beverage", "almond non-dairy beverage". A lot of this depends on the country of origin or the lobbying of various dairy organisations here in Australia. At the health food supermarket I work at, most of the beverages sold are labeled as "milk", the bag I made this drink in was sold as a "nut milk bag".
Remember vegan "cheese" isn't made from dairy either, but we know that it refers to the intended use of the product as an alternative to the original :)
@Sherrme : Yup! Milk with too many supplements and vitamins must also be labelled 'Dairy/Milk beverage' rather than just milk. :)
I would call this horchata. In Spanish-speaking countries, there's a long tradition of making beverages out of nuts or grains. Freshly made, they taste much better to me than packaged beverages.