One of the most delicious plant milks to make when summer comes around would be tigernut horchata, especially in the Mediterranean area. Both tigernut and almond milk have been well-loved drinks for centuries in all Valencian Community, Catalonia, Balearic Islands and the south of Italy. Horchata doesn’t hold up to high temperatures well, and therefore will ferment very fast. This is the reason … [Read more...]
Pregnancy & Homemade Plant Milks: a Basic Guide.
Seeing that lots of you asked us about the best milk to drink during pregnancy, we decided to create this little guide. Here you’ll find some interesting options which will supply you with lots of very well needed nutrients during the pregnancy period, as well as a lovely, luscious flavour. We are aware that nutritional requirements increase during pregnancy, as creating new life requires a lot … [Read more...]
Homemade tigernut milk vs storebought: A scientific study on nutritional differences
Here in ChufaMix, we’ve been long looking around the web to find some kind of scientific studies on the differences between both homemade and store-bought plant milks, mainly related to their nutritional properties. Hard to believe that, as different as both drinks are, no research could be found. It’s sad to think that’s it’s easier to find a tutorial on how to make a homemade bomb on the … [Read more...]
Preserving homemade plant milks at home
Given that homemade plant milks aren’t sterilised, pasteurised or homogenised, they usually don’t last as much as their pre-packaged counterparts. One of the latter can travel in 30ºC heat and still last in a store shelf for 2 years. This wouldn’t happen with the more natural version (as it’s the case with basically all kind of fresh ingredients), so it’s necessary to take extra measures to ensure … [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...]
