Back To Basics- How To Make Homemade Hemp Milk Recipe with 3 Variations
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Back To Basics- How To Make Homemade Hemp Milk Recipe with 3 Variations
Hi Friends! I’m back today with another instalment in our Back To Basics series. I’m so excited about today’s recipe, today we’re adding another type of nut milk to our dairy free milk recipe box with a Hemp Milk Recipe! We’ve had such great feedback about our Almond Milk Recipe and our Coconut Milk Recipe so it seemed time that we gave you the secret to making the EASIEST dairy free milk of all– Hemp Heart Milk!
Have you ever tried hemp hearts? If you had asked me 5 years ago what hemp hearts are, I probably would have stared at you blankly. Now they are a staple that I always have in my pantry. I can’t get enough of the sweet, nutty flavor and all of the healthy benefits that this little gem adds to my diet! I love sprinkling hemp hearts on my salad, adding it to granola, spooning it onto yogurt and blending it into smoothies. It also makes a delicious nut/seed milk on it’s own.
The first time I ever heard of hemp hearts was when I met Manitoba Harvest at a wellness show a few years back. Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts are by far our favorite of any of the hemp hearts we have tried and have become the only hemp hearts we buy (they sell them at our Costco!) Not only is Manitoba Harvest a Canadian company (which we love) but they are also the world’s largest hemp food company in the world. They know just about everything there is to know about hemp food, from seed to table, and have been pioneers in making hemp food become mainstream.
Read to the end of this post for your chance to win Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts and/or click here for a $1.00 off coupon good in the US, or here for a $1.00 off coupon good in Canada.
Hemp hearts are a super food that’s packed full of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids (aka great for brain and heart health, healthy skin, hair and bones as well as for regulating your metabolism and cholesterol.) Hemp hearts are also a great source of plant based high quality protein with over 25% of their calories being protein calories.
Bottom line… They’ll make you smart, they’ll make you beautiful, they’ll keep your heart healthy and they’re yummy in your tummy! What more do you need to know? 😉
When many people hear the word hemp, they immediately think of marijuana and wonder if they are going to “get high” if they consume hemp hearts. The answer is no. Hemp seeds contain .001% levels of THC and don’t cause any psychoactive side effects nor would they cause you to have a false positive on a drug test.
Hemp milk takes absolutely no pre-planning (no soaking required), takes approximately 60 seconds to make and you can play with different flavor variations depending on what you’re going to be having it with.
Among many options, Karen loves having her hemp milk on granola and I love using it in chia pudding and smoothies!
Read on for our Back To Basics Hemp Milk Recipe and to learn 3 tasty variations for taking your hemp milk up a notch!
Back To Basics- How To Make Homemade Hemp Milk Recipe with 3 Variations
Ingredients:
-1/2 cup of hemp heart seed
-4 cups water
Directions:
1. Put hemp hearts and water in your high speed blender (we use the Blendtech). Blend for 60 seconds. Voila! You have hemp milk! Tastes best when chilled in the fridge before serving. Store extra in the fridge for 2-3 days.
That’s it! Super easy, right? Want to take your hemp milk up a notch? Check out some of our suggested hemp milk variations listed below the recipe card!
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Back To Basics- How To Make Homemade Hemp Milk Recipe with 3 Variations
Ingredients
- -1/2 cup of hemp heart seed
- -4 cups water
Instructions
- Put hemp hearts and water in your high speed blender (we use the Blendtech). Blend for 60 seconds. Voila! You have hemp milk! Tastes best when chilled in the fridge before serving. Store extra in the fridge for 2-3 days.
Hemp Milk Recipe Variations
Vanilla Hemp Milk- 1/4 cup hemp hearts, 2 cups of water, 1 pitted medjool date, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, pinch of salt
Chocolate Hemp Milk- 1/4 cup hemp hearts, 2 cups of water, 1 pitted medjool date, 1 tablespoon raw cacao powder, pinch of salt
Vanilla Berry Hemp Milk- 1/4 cup hemp hearts, 2 cups of water, 1 pitted medjool date, 1/2 cup of your favorite berries, 1 teaspoon of vanilla (Optional: Pour hemp milk through a sieve after blending to remove berry seeds)
Really… I could go on and on and on… a Mocha Maca Hemp Milk with maca root powder and raw cacao! A Mexican Hot Chocolate Hemp Milk with raw cacao, cinnamon, nutmeg and a pinch of cayenne. A Chai Hemp Milk Recipe with cinnamon, cardamon, clove, nutmeg, ginger and all spice… What kind of hemp milk would you make?
Ready for our giveaway?
Manitoba Harvest with be sending one of our lucky readers 2- 227g bags of Hemp Hearts and 2 bags of Hemp Heart Bites! Enter below!
Disclosure: Thank you to Manitoba Harvest for working with us on this post. As with all articles on Hello Creative Family, all thoughts and opinions are 100% our own!
I gonna be honest here and say I’d never even heard of hemp milk, but I’d love to try it in coffee!
I’d use it in coffee and smoothies!
I would love to try it in my cereal and my coffee.
I would try it in my coffee and oatmeal!
I would like to make hemp milk to use on my oatmeal and in a blueberry smoothie.
I would use it over cereal!
I would use it on my cereal and in baking that I do weekly for my family too!
I would definitely use the hemp milk in my daily green smoothies as well as in baked goods for a healthy alternative to cow’s milk.
I would put it in a smoothie. I think I might add a little vanilla flavouring
I’ll be trying it on my oatmeal!! I’ve always added Manitoba Hemp Hearts, this will kick it up a notch!!
I have got some shelled hemp that I put in my smoothies, and hemp milk would go great alongside that, in oats, pancakes, or in granola. There are so many options. Can’t wait to try the date/cacao version
There are so many delicious options! I’d like to try them all!
I would try it in my coffee, on my oatmeal, in smoothies and on its own with vanilla.
I would add it to a smoothie with no extra flavourings!
I would like to try it with by breakfast milkshake !
In my smoothie!
I love using hemp milk to make an elixir to enjoy while my little one naps :p
I would use it for probably everything! I usually use almond milk but definitely like the health benefits the hemp would provide!
I would put my hemp milk in smoothies and cereal and I would add chocolate in it.
I would definitely use it in my coffee and on my cereal!