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Horchata
Page: www.davidlebovitz.com/2011/06/horchata-recipe-mexican-rice-drink/
Cuisine: Mexican | Course Type: Beverages
Recipe Reviews
Queezle_Sister from Salt Lake City, UT
Who doesn't love horchata?
A comment that @snoopy made in reference to making her own rice milk made me realize that it might be possible to prepare our own horchata.
To make this, you first grind up rice, then you soak it (over night, for us it was about 24 hours) with cinnamon stick, then you grind the softened rice in the blender. Our initial rice grinding didn't do much to the grains, but the second grinding, after it soaked, really pulverized it.
After that you add sugar, then milk. The recipe suggests 3/4 C or 1C. We tried 3/4 C, but it was a bit too sweet. Nonetheless, it is delightfully refreshing.
Two steps are a bit of challenge. First is filtering out the pulverized rice - our chemex coffee filters were too fine, but a paper towel worked.
The second challenging step is cleanup. Imagine all that rice debris in the bottom of the blender. My dear s 13-daughter helped to clean it up by sending all that debris down our plumbing - oh well.
Our hispanic market's horchata have HFCS, and we are encouraged about finding a healthier version.
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