Making Almond Milk in the Ace Plus Blender by Instant Pot is one of our more popular videos which is why we're featuring it as our very first favorite video of the week. This was only the second thing I made with this blender as it was something I knew I needed to know that the machine could make as I made it frequently with the Ninja 1100 Blender. We give the Ace Plus Blender 4 thumbs up for how it handled Almond Milk. It even came with a cute little nut bag for straining the milk out of the almonds. WHAT TO EXPECT |
INGREDIENTS| Raw Almonds: 1 CUP of soaked almonds Filtered Water: 2 to 4 CUPS (plus water for soaking almonds) Salt (optional - a pinch) Honey (or your sweetener of choice, but it's optional) KEY COMPONENTS USED DURING VIDEO| Instant Pot (our model is DUO 80) Chef'n Sift'n Sieve Flour Sifter and Sieve Ace Plus Blender (Nut Milk Button) Nut Bag Bodum Kenya 8 Cup French Press Chrome Coffee Maker* Farberware Wide Canning Funnel Bowl, Parchment Paper & Baking Sheet (for failed almond pulp crackers) A coffee french press was attempted to use to separate the nut pulp from the "milk," but the blender did such a great job grinding up the almonds that it was impossible to use this method. Making Almond Milk| Put 1 cup of Almonds in your Instant Pot. Like it or not uses low pressure for not even a minute and then did a quick release. After the pressure was released, Mrs. LION rinsed off the almonds in a strainer and removed the skins. Removing the skins is a completely optional step. Next up is putting the Raw Almonds into the Ace Plus Blender with 2 cups of Filtered water. You can use as much or as little water as you would like, but we prefer starting with only 2 cups as it's less squeezing of the nut bag. Once pressing the Nut Oat Milk button, the Ace Plus Blender automatically knows when to blend and when to rest. Upon completion of the cycle, Mrs. LION tried a technique of pouring the blender mixture into a french press for separation. However, this technique failed. The Almond Pulp & Water were transferred to the nut bag that came with the blender (they can be purchased separately) and the liquid was squeezed out of the nut bag. Find a good container. We prefer Mason Jars. Put your pulp from the nut bag into the container because you can turn your pulp into flour. If you want your almond milk thinner (like we do), put the almond milk back into the blender and add your preference of water (we generally add 2 more cups of water). If you know you aren't going to be adding more water, the next step you will want to do during the first blending. At this point, it's time to add the optional salt (we just use a little bit) and a little squirt of honey. Many people add dates or other things such as vanilla to their almond milk, but we prefer almost as plain Jane as you can get. Pulse for an additional 30 seconds and it's ready to pour into a mason jar to go into the fridge. We try to use ours within a week's time for our cooking needs. BEHIND THE SCENES: We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We may have used Tube Buddy for the thumbnail along with Canva (can't remember since this was created back in June 2020). You can also find this on our Kitchen Page as of 10/1/2020
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