How To Prepare Tiger Nuts Milk (Kunun Aya).

How To Prepare Tiger Nuts Milk (Kunun Aya).

Tiger Nuts (Kunun Aya). Tiger nuts is one of my favorite nut during my childhood age. It comes to a time I make it one of my hated nut. As time goes on, It come to a time I had about Tiger Nuts Milk (Kunun Aya), I was like whoops! I will love to taste it. You might have been hearing tiger nuts milk and you have wish to taste or have the knowledge of preparing it yourself, let's safe you the stress of daydreaming it and really having it done yourself... 

Now you're in for a treat. am about to show you how you can prepare Tiger Nuts Milk (Kunun Aya) for yourself and enjoy with family and friends. Best served with any type of snacks... its yummy I must say. Haven tasted it... its undeniable the best...

Tiger Nuts is the English general name, here's are the other names for Tiger Nuts.

* The Igbo's call it Aki Awusa.

* The Hausa's call it Aya.

* The Efik/Ibibio's call it Isip Isong.

* The Yoruba's call it Ofio.

* It's called Hausa Groundnut in Pidgin.
* It's called Keegun in Okun.

* It's called Chufas in Spanish.

Where to buy Tiger Nuts.

There are are two types of Tiger Nuts: Yellow and Brown.
The brown one's is raw while the yellow one's is soaked. Both are much more available in Nigeria, don't know of other countries. But I guess it would be the same.

* I'm in Nigeria, where and how will I get it!...

Tiger Nuts is usually sold by the Hausa's and it's usually sold on the streets and majorly in the markets.

* I'm in Spain, where and how will I get it!... it's usually sold in the Frutos Secos shop, that is, shops that sell dry fruits. You will ask for Chufas or Tiger nuts which is the general name.

* I'm in United Kingdom, where and how will I get it!... You can order for it from Amazon online market.

* I'm in United States, where and how will I get it!...  it's usually sold by La Tienda. The vendor for tiger nuts on Amazon United States online market.

Ingredients To Use When Preparing Tiger Nuts Milk.

Important part of the Ingredients.

* 1000g Soaked Tiger Nuts or 800g Dry Tiger Nuts.

* 2½ Litres of warm water.

Optional part of the Ingredients.

* Coconut milk.

* Brown or White Sugar Honey.

* Ginger.

* Cinnamon.

Tools needed.

* Blender; To blend the soaked tiger nuts.

* Chiffon cloth; To extract the blend tiger nuts.

Directions:

1. If you are using the dry tiger nuts, soak in warm water overnight. Most tiger nuts sold in Nigeria are fresh so you don't need to soak it much longer than an hour.

2. Now you have your tiger nuts ready, pour into a sieve to drain off all the water use to soak it, then wash the nuts very well and sort out the bad ones.

3. Pour into the blender and pour like one litre of warm water to help the blades easier. The amount of water need depends on the amount of your tiger nuts. It's advisable to add more than enough water cause you need to make the milk concentrated and tasty as possible as you can.

4. If you are using any ingredient that will be need to blend among the optional ones, add them now before blending it.

5. After blending it, place chiffon cloth into a bowl, pour the blended tiger nuts into it to separate the chaff from the drink.

6. Add pressure to get out the tiger nuts milk, squeezed by adding more pressure to bring out all the milk from the chaff.
You may pour back the squeeze chaff into the blender, add more warm water and blend again and strain with the chiffon cloth.

7. You will keep on repeat the process till all the milk has been extract. Take note of the last part you extract it may be too watery. So you should take note on the quantity of water used.

8. Keep the extracted milk into bottle or glass jug and store in the fridge for like 50 hours = 2 days and... 

Serve and Enjoy the Tiger Nuts Milk with any snack of your choice