I really like soymilk. Unfortunately, it usually comes in tetra paks. I don’t buy things in tetra paks because they’re made of plastic and (most of the time) contain a bunch of additives that I don’t want to eat. So I started making my own soymilk. Here’s how.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups dried soybeans
• water
• 1/3 cup lemon juice

Rinse the soybeans. Pick out any discolored or bad looking beans.

Put them in a large bowl of water, and let them soak in the fridge overnight.

In the morning, my soybeans looked like this:

They expanded a lot. Make sure you add enough water to the soaking bowl. Next, drain the soybeans and blend them in a food processor in small batches. Add the soaked soybeans to the food processor with enough fresh water to cover them, and blend until creamy and smooth.

Add the blended soybeans to a very large pot. Add 12 cups of water.

Cook for about 20 minutes, or until its just about to boil. Strain into another large pot. The stuff in the strainer is okara. It can be frozen for up to five months. I put my okara in a glass container in the fridge. Unfortunately I haven’t really figured out what to do with okara. Usually I just end up composting it. I have the same dilemma with the almond meal left over when I make almond milk.

The liquid in the pot is soymilk. Put it in some glass bottles and refrigerate. I used glass milk bottles.

Enjoy! I like it on this granola.