Tigernut pulp, just like nut pulp, can be used in Yogurt, soup, purees and salads, and it also makes a wonderful pasta toppings. When it comes to baking, it can be used instead of actual Tigernut flour in cake, cookies and even bread. However, it is necessary to take into account that it’s a wetter ingredient, so you will need to decrease the amount of water/milk/liquids in the recipe. Today … [Read more...]
Sugar-Free Rice Milk Tigernut Horchata
Our friend and reader Jean-Baptiste Selfa, from Germany sent us this really interesting recipe proposal not too long ago. His grand-mother used to make tigernut horchata, though she preferred to use rice milk instead of water, which is actually a clever way to make horchata sweeter without having to add extra sugar. We obviously thought it was a fantastic idea, so we decided to give it a go! … [Read more...]
Chestnut milk with tigernuts – Video recipe
Chestnut milk is a typical autumn dairy free option. If the chestnuts are ripe, well-roasted or cooked, the vegan milk obtained from them is a delicacy. In Chufamix we love mixing seeds so we have added a handful of tigernuts to the traditional chetnut milk recipe to make a super-energetic vegan milk, but if you want to try the real taste of chestnut milk, we have included the recipe in the last … [Read more...]
Tigernuts horchata, the queen of plant milks.
Tiger nuts and almond “horchatas” are, for their excellence, the most appreciated milks in the Mediterranean surroundings, because of which, they are the Royal Family of “horchatas” or plant milks. “Horchata” is the local word used to name a very concentrated home-made plant milk. Horchata's flavour is unusually outstanding, but its nutritional properties are also “outstanding” when it is … [Read more...]
Traditional tigernut horchata with strawberries
Spring and Summer time is full of fruits. For us it´s inspirational and we love to play with their different flavours by adding them to our veggie milks. This week we´ve made the tigernut horchata with strawberries. The recipe is from www.monorxata.com, an artisan Valencian based company dedicated to horchata and tigernut. It is a pioneering company, involved with the Chufamix project, … [Read more...]
