Ofio, (Tiger Nuts Milk)

  Tiger nuts have a nutty milky taste. Not only do they taste nice, but also have lots of health benefits.

To eat it as a snack, just chew and suck on the chaff then spit it out. Some people swallow the chaff but it is not the same for other people.

Another way to enjoy these nuts is to soak, blend and strain them to get the very delicious juice in it.

Ingredients

Tiger Nuts

Cold water

Other ingredients you can add to it are;

Coconut

Sugar

Ginger

Cinnamon

To blend it, you’ll need a kitchen blender. My blender has 600W power and it did a great job of blending the soaked nuts.

To strain it you will need a chiffon cloth

Method

Soak the very dry nuts in a generous quantity of cold water for 2 days. Keep it in the fridge for the duration of the soaking so that the nuts do not ferment

After the soaking, wash the nuts very well and sort out the bad ones

Put them in your kitchen blender and pour enough water to help the blades move very well

You can add more water later if you wish

At this time you can add other ingredients: coconut, sugar, ginger and other flavours of your choice and blend them together

After blending, use a chiffon cloth

Make sure you squeeze out all the milk from the chaff

Put the dry chaff back in the blender, add more water and blend again. Then strain with the chiffon cloth

Repeat the process till all the milk has been extracted. 2 times should be enough and keep an eye on the quantity of water

Pour the extracted milk into bottles and store in the fridge for up to 3 days. It should last longer in the freezer.

Serve with any snack of your choice.