Name: Brown Rice Horchata Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: 5
Ingredients: 1 cup rinsed brown rice; 4 cups water; 2 cinnamon sticks; 1 cup skim milk; ⅓ cup raw sugar; 1 tsp dark vanilla extract; ½ tsp ground cinnamon

Brown Rice Horchata Recipe

How To Make Brown Rice Horchata

Elevate your usual chilled horchata by adding brown rice, cinnamon, sugar, and vanilla. Sweet and refreshing, a glass will keep you energetic the whole day!

Preparation: 10 minutes

Cooking:

Soak Time: 8 hours

Total: 8 hours 10 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

1cuprinsed brown rice
4cupswater
2cinnamon sticks
1cupskim milk
⅓cupraw sugar,or agave, more to taste
1tspdark vanilla extract
½tspground cinnamon,plus more to top

Instructions

Soak the rice overnight or at least 8 hours in water with cinnamon sticks.
The next day, discard cinnamon sticks and blend the rice and water in your blender at the highest speed for about 5 minutes.
Pass through a fine mesh sieve about two times to catch all the gritty bits (A stocking works great). Discard the remaining rice pulp.
Pour into a pitcher; add skim milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla then stir to mix well. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
To serve, fill a glass with ice, pour horchata into a glass. Sprinkle a little cinnamon on each serving just before drinking.