{"id":2402,"date":"2013-10-18T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2013-10-18T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:37:27","slug":"homemade-soy-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Soy Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homemade soy milk somehow tastes nicer and more flavourful<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m so pleased with myself today because I made soy milk for breakfast. It’s my first attempt at it;\u00a0my go at it also marks the start of my delicious journey with the blender I bought last night.<\/p>\n

I love soy milk – it’s the Chinese in me – and there’s nothing like fresh soy milk made without preservatives. I had to soak the beans overnight – you will see that they expand to about twice their original size and turn into a deeper shed of yellow\u00a0(small picture on right of the blender). In the morning I boiled the soaked beans for about 15 minutes. After which the boiled beans were placed in the blender together with an equal portion of water. Then I hit the power button and let the blades do their work.<\/p>\n

I then put the resulting mixture through a sieve which had a very fine wire mesh and used a spoon to press down on the pulp to extract the milk. A muslin or cheese cloth would probably be better but I still managed to get most of the milk out with my sieve. The remaining pulp (bottom right picture)\u00a0is also known as okara<\/em>, a type of soy fibre. Okara can also be used in cooking and making desserts, and I’m thinking up ways I can use my little stash.<\/p>\n

As the milk had been squeezed into a pot I warmed it up and added a little brown sugar to sweeten it. And voila, I had a richly flavoured and nutritious breakfast beverage. Now I don’t need to spend money buying expensive bottled soy milk – makes me more environmentally friendly and reduces my carbon footprint at the same time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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