Non-dairy milks are all the rage at the moment, and not just for the vegans among us. From lactose intolerance to just plain not liking the taste, more and more people are enjoying different varieties of non-dairy milk.
However, while most people are familiar with things like almond or soy milk, not many have ever tried pea milk.
This is most likely because basically, no supermarket keeps it in stock, so if you want to try it for yourself, you need to make it yourself.
How Can I Use My Own Pea Milk?
Pea milk is perfect for regular drinking, as a direct replacement for regular milk, but it can also be used in cooking.
Whether as the liquid for making a béchamel sauce or as a thickening, enriching ingredient in all kinds of sauces, pea milk can be used as an almost exact replacement for milk.
What Kind Of Special Equipment Do I Need To Make Pea Milk?
Making pea milk is as simple as cooking the peas, and blending them with the requisite amount of liquid and flavorings, so the only really special piece of equipment that you need is a blender. If you didn’t have a blender, though, you could instead just use a strong mortar and pestle to help break everything down instead.
A muslin cloth or nut milk bag can also be a huge help, so as to ensure that none of the particulate leftover from blending the peas gets stuck in your milk at the end.
Ingredients
1 cup of Yellow Split Peas
6 cups of Water
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
½ tsp Salt
1 tsp Honey
How To Make Homemade Pea Milk
Step 1 – Add all of your yellow split peas to 3 cups of water, and leave them to soak overnight.
Step 2 – Drain and then rinse all of your peas, and then add them to 3 new cups of water, bringing it all to a boil and then reducing to a simmer for 1 hour.
Step 3 – Drain the peas, and add them to a blender, along with the water from the blender, or 3 new cups of water, as well as all of your other ingredients.
Step 4 – Blend everything together until it is totally smooth.
Step 5 – Pour out your pea milk and store it in a sealed container with an airtight lid in the fridge for up to 1 week.
Troubleshooting Tips
• One thing you might struggle with is trying to get everything blended together without causing a huge mess everywhere. While it is mostly going to depend on the size of your blender, 3 cups of water and a cup of cooked yellow split peas can cause a pretty big explosion if you don’t blend it really carefully. This means that you should try to only blend your pea milk in short bursts at a low speed, to ensure that you don’t accidentally cause a pea milk explosion. Using cold water will also help with this, as the steam from using the freshly boiled water you boiled the peas in will increase the pressure inside the blender.
• If your pea milk doesn’t have the right balance of flavors that you are looking for when it is all blended up, you might just need to adjust the flavorings a little bit. Every different batch of peas is going to have its own sweetness, so you might need to add more or less honey depending on how it tastes.
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Nutritional Facts
For the health-conscious out there, here are the nutritional details for 1 cup of pea milk.
Calories: 176
Total Fat: 0.6 grams
Saturated Fat: 0.1 grams
Cholesterol: 0 milligrams
Sodium: 304 milligrams
Total Carbohydrates: 31.3 grams
Dietary Fiber: 12.6 grams
Sugars: 5.6 grams
Protein: 12.1 gram
Potassium: 487 milligrams
FAQs
This recipe calls for the addition of around 3 cups of water to the blender alongside your peas, and you can choose to either use the water you boiled your peas in or some fresh water.
If you want a really fresh tasting pea milk, with a much cleaner flavor, you should use clean, ideally distilled water. However, if you used the water you boiled the peas in, it would taste a lot more strongly of peas, but it would also have a slightly thicker, more intense flavor, so just choose which one you prefer.
This recipe calls for yellow split peas, which is one of the most common types of peas available at most supermarkets.
However, while yellow split peas will have the smoothest flavor and will likely make the sweetest pea milk, you absolutely could use other types of dried peas. There are a whole host of varieties of different peas out there, all with their own flavor and nutritional content, so keep in mind that if you use a different type of pea, you might need to add more or less liquid, as well as adjust the sweetness depending on how sweet the peas turn out to be.
This recipe makes for a pretty simply flavored pea milk, with a lot more pea flavors at the forefront than anything else.
However, if you like your dairy milk substitutes a little bit more intensely flavored, you could absolutely spice it up a bit more.
Some turmeric, cayenne, and some cinnamon powder would make this a really interestingly flavored pea milk. However, if you are planning on using your pea milk as an ingredient in other recipes, it is best to leave it as simple as possible, so that it stays versatile.
How to Make Your Own Pea Milk
Ingredients
1 cup of Yellow Split Peas
6 cups of Water
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Honey
Instructions
Step 1 – Add all of your yellow split peas to 3 cups of water, and leave them to soak overnight.
Step 2 – Drain and then rinse all of your peas, and then add them to 3 new cups of water, bringing it all to a boil and then reducing to a simmer for 1 hour.
Step 3 – Drain the peas, and add them to a blender, along with the water from the blender, or 3 new cups of water, as well as all of your other ingredients.
Step 4 – Blend everything together until it is totally smooth.
Step 5 – Strain your pea milk through a nut milk bag or a fine mesh strainer, and then store it in a sealed container with an airtight lid in the fridge for up to 1 week.
Nutrition Facts
- Serving Size: 1 cup
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