Lentil Milk ... and Yogurt/Pudding Excellent!

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Just to let people know, I've made this now only a few times, but this

gives spectacular results! A natural NON-FAT vegan milk that is

inexpensive, healthy, flexible and good. It works best for pudding

(banana(fruit!)/chocolate/vanilla) as it thickens substantially and

naturally as it cools. And it is vastly superior to soymilk for yogurt

making, as it does not require additional thickeners or stabilizing

agents to set and does NOT separate as the culture acidifies. Another

neat thing, there is not the clump of setted okara at the bottom of

the jug as with homemade soymilk.

 

Soymilk being more liquid is still better for cold cereal and drinking

(I do think so! but the lentil-oat milk (a pudding at fridge temp)

can be stirred up with a little warm water and used as an OK

substitute if necessary. In hot cereal just warm it on the stove and

it is far creamier than the soymilk. I think the faint nutty taste of

the lentils complements whole grains. It's not beany or bitter.

 

The yogurt has a wonderful texture on the spoon. At 20-25 cents per

quart or liter(!), and very easy to make (be sure to add 1 or 2 T real

sugar of some kind for the culture and just stir the live culture in

as the milk cools to the appropriate temp and incubate), there is

going to be alot of natural non-fat yogurt now in my diet.

 

I am totally jazzed!

 

Slim

 

p.s. The only caveat for using the lentils weight for weight and

measure for measure instead of soybeans in your soymilk maker, the

milk may scorch more easily. If so, you can turn off the heated cycle

on your machine before it gets too hot. I do this on mine right after

the grinding finishes, and the cooked milk has a final temp of 175

degrees F, well above pasturizing temp but seems to avoid scorching

and lets the machine be easier to clean.

 

p.p.s. What I had for breakfast was both my warm banana-oatmeal-flax

cereal and fil-mjolk live-culture yogurt made with the LOM

(lentil-oat-milk). Terrific!

 

 

 

, " slim_langer "

<slim_langer wrote:

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> Has anyone tried the procedure for making soymilk with lentils or

> other legumes? ...

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