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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Special Diets / Dairy Free Recipes / How to Make Oat Milk Yogurt at Home

How to Make Oat Milk Yogurt at Home

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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Why and how to make homemade oat milk yogurt that is fermented properly with live cultures and thick and delicious for eating out of a bowl or blended into smoothies. oat milk yogurt in a mug with blueberries on top

I enjoy making homemade yogurt because the probiotic and milk quality so far outstrips yogurt brands available at the store.

This is especially true for dairy-free yogurt made with milk substitutes such as oat milk.

For example, these are the ingredients of the premier brand of oat milk yogurt at the health food store. Would I buy this stuff…ever?  Definitely not!

Oat milk (water, whole oat flour), faba bean protein, tapioca flour, coconut oil, agar, nonGMO citric acid, live nondairy yogurt cultures, live nondairy probiotic cultures.

Reasons to Avoid Store-Bought Oat Yogurt

There are 4 reasons why this yogurt isn’t something healthy to eat. I wouldn’t buy it even if I was traveling with no access to a kitchen.

  1. The oat milk is made with oat flour and water. The flour isn’t sprouted or soaked first, so it is insanely high in gut harming phytates. Oats, in particular, are very high in this type of antinutrient.
  2. The citric acid is likely tainted with MSG residue despite the fact that it is nonGMO.
  3. The faba bean protein would also almost certainly be tainted with MSG residue from processing.
  4. There are 2 grams of fiber in each serving of this yogurt likely from the uncooked oat flour that it contains. Consuming raw, uncooked grain flour is very disruptive to gut function as it is highly indigestible, becoming food for candida and other pathogens to thrive upon.

In short, if you enjoy the mild taste of oat milk and would like to make yogurt with it, you really are going to need to make it yourself! There just isn’t any brand on the market that I’ve been able to find that is worthy of your food dollar.

Fortunately, oat milk yogurt is quite easy to make at home! Here is my simple recipe below with a short video showing how lusciously thick it turns out when it is ready to eat!

Commercial Oat Milk Brands

Note that commercial brands of oat milk are high in phytates and packaged in toxic containers.

If at all possible, make your own either using this recipe for sprouted oat milk or this recipe for making oat milk from soaked groats.

Then, use the recipe below to make fantastic, healthy, digestible oat milk yogurt!

oat milk yogurt in a mug with blueberries on top
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Homemade Oat Milk Yogurt

Why and how to make oat milk yogurt at home fermented with live cultures that is thick and delicious for eating out of a bowl or for smoothies.

Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword nondairy
Prep Time 10 minutes
Fermentation time 8 hours
Servings 8
Calories 130 kcal
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 2 quarts oat milk preferably homemade
  • 1 packet nondairy yogurt starter
  • 2 Tbl gelatin

Instructions

  1. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of gelatin into 2 cups of cold or room temperature oat milk.

  2. Let sit for a minute or two, then mix well to combine. Blend gelatin/milk mixture with 6 more cups of oat milk for a total of 2 quarts.

  3. Warm the oat milk/gelatin mixture to a culturing temperature of 108-110 °F/42-43 °C. Use a food thermometer to check the temperature as needed.

  4. Stir in the nondairy starter culture and ferment for 8 hours or overnight in a yogurt maker or a slow cooker with a yogurt setting (I use this one).

  5. The yogurt will still be quite runny when fermentation is complete. To thicken it up, chill in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.

  6. Eat and enjoy! The deliciously thick, mild tasting nondairy yogurt stays good refrigerated for up to one week.

Recipe Video

https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/homemade-oat-milk-yogurt.mp4
Nutrition Facts
Homemade Oat Milk Yogurt
Amount Per Serving (8 ounces)
Calories 130 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 1g5%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
Sodium 112mg5%
Potassium 100mg3%
Carbohydrates 14g5%
Protein 5g10%
Calcium 13mg1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

oat milk yogurt in a mason jar topped with blueberries and oatmeal

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (6)

  1. Cynthia

    Jun 12, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    Can I use some of the finished yogurt to make a new batch? Thanks

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    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Jun 14, 2021 at 11:05 am

      It might work. It works for dairy yogurt … if you try it, let us know!

  2. unknown

    Apr 22, 2021 at 4:52 am

    Aren’t phytates anti-cancer? I read they bind with the nutrients in your food and stop you absorbing them but they also have anti-cancer properties. Also if the gelatine is from a cheap source it is probably pretty bad for you.

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    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Apr 22, 2021 at 10:36 am

      Phytates can be helpful on a short term basis for certain medical situations, but not all the time in your food! Yes, the gelatin source is important … I suggested vetted, 3rd party independently tested sources only.

  3. Lauren Fox

    Jul 8, 2020 at 3:41 pm

    This may be a silly question, but can we just use a couple capsules of a probiotic instead of buying a vegan culture starter? I specifically have Probiotia Histaminx from Seeking Health or Megaspore from Microbiome Labs.

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Jul 8, 2020 at 10:03 pm

      I’ve heard you can do this, but I’ve never had success with it myself.

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