Homemade Soy Milk

We have vegetarians in our family and found they did not like alternate milks, except soy. Soy milk is expensive, so I decided to make my own. Dried soy beans are cheap.

There are a lot of directions online, but they are confusing, and most instruct you to hull the beans, which is a complicated process. The other time-consuming process is the boiling, which has to be watched carefully. Instructions recommend anywhere from 20 minutes to 10 hours. Freezing the beans somehow makes the hull removal easy and using the crockpot has made the slow simmer easy to control. It gives me perfect soy milk each time.

Total Time: 10 minutes active; 24 hours total.

Yield: Three cups

Ingredients:

1 cup dried soybeans
3 cups water

Steps:

Soak soybeans overnight in plenty of water.
Discard water, pack into containers and freeze in one-cup (or as much as you want to make at one time) containers.
Microwave on high for 5 minutes.
Cool with cold water. As soybeans cool, rub them with your fingers to dislodge hulls. Let the running water float them out of the bowl. Just remove what comes off easily.

Drain soybeans and place in blender with 3x the volume of water as soybeans. (They will have swollen). Blend until you have a thick slurry.
Place in crockpot on low and leave overnight or at least 8 hours.
Strain through cheesecloth or muslin into glass jars. Add whatever sweetener you like, or a dash of salt if you want. Keep in refrigerator for a week.

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DCA
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January 1, 20150 found this helpful

You can save money by making soy milk at home. However, if your family is substituting home made soy milk for dairy milk, you should consider supplements and other foods to replace the ingredients that your home made soy milk does not contain. Unless you specifically add these ingredients to your soy milk, your family may not be getting enough of these nutrients that are naturally in or added to dairy milk and some other non-dairy substitutes:

calcium
vitamina A
Vitamin B2 & B12
vitamin D2
Vitamin E

Denise

January 1, 20150 found this helpful

That is amazingly easy! I drink soy milk all the time. Wondering if my Shuttle Thermos (cooker that preserves heat for 8 hours rather than using energy) would work. I make almond milk with dates for sweetener. Yum.

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