How do we get milk from almonds?

Moment of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Almond milk is more popular than ever these days, but have you ever wondered how they actually get milk from almonds? We asked Gemma Aguayo-Murphy , recipe developer and creator of the cooking blog Everyday Latina, how it’s done.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Am.
0:04.0	Momentum.
0:06.0	Moment of Am comes to you from APM Studios,
0:12.0	and I'm Franny Farmer.
0:14.4	I love helping out on our families farm.
0:20.0	We grow almonds and we make all kinds of things with them, almond granola,
0:24.8	almond cookies, even crushed up almonds that we use as flour.
0:28.8	But if we're going to make it as a small family farm,
0:31.8	we have to branch out and make new products. So that's why today
0:36.5	I'm going to try and make almond milk. The problem is, I have been trying to squeeze these almonds for 20 minutes and no milk is coming out.
0:48.0	I cracked them, stomped on them, squeezed them.
0:53.2	No luck.
0:54.8	Monroe and Aubrey must have been trying to find out where
0:57.6	almonds keep their milk too, because they ask this question.
1:02.2	How do almonds get turned into almond milk?
1:05.0	Well you can't squeeze the milk out of almonds, but you can't blend them really well and all you really need is a high-powered blender, a
1:16.0	strainer, water, and whole raw almonds and you can get almond milk.
1:20.7	I am Hima Aguayo Murphy and I am a food blogger for the blog Everyday Latina.com so I share lots of different
1:29.2	recipes on there. So the first thing you do you want to place a cup of almonds in a bowl and then you will cover them with water and then you'll place a bowl in the refrigerator overnight so that the almonds can get really nice and tender and it's easier to
1:44.4	blend them. The next morning you'll pour all of those almonds and just make sure
1:49.4	you rinse them out, put them in the blender with four cups of fresh water, and then you'll blend them
1:55.1	on really high speed for about two minutes, and you'll see the almonds start breaking down.
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