Horton Hears a Horchata

Why would anyone ever pay for this in the store?  It's stupid-easy to make and tastes amazing made at home.  Pretty sure I'm in love.

Also tonnes of love to the lady who posted this amazing video on how to make homemade horchata.  I've tweaked the recipe a little (because of course I have) but she was the original inspiration.

You can make this in about 2 hours, but all said it takes about 5 minutes of work.  Gonna bet that it's amazing in the summertime, but it's January and 17*F/-8*C where I am and I'm enjoying it. so maybe it's just that good..

Not maybe.  Definitely.  This drink is good.

Horton Hears a Horchata

Ingredients
3/4 cup rice -- whatever you have in the house
1 1/2 cup water, warm to a simmer

1 Tbsp vanilla
14 oz sweetened condensed milk
12 oz evaporated milk
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

6 cups drinking water
12 ice cubes


Instructions
  1. In a cereal bowl, combine rice and warm water, stirring just until the rice is all underwater.
  2. Let that sit for 2 hours.
  3. Once your rice has soaked for 2 hours, put it into a blender with the vanilla, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and cinnamon.
  4. Blend it up until it's pretty smooth.
  5. Strain it in a fine mesh strainer to separate the liquid from the solid mash.
  6. Combine the drinking water and ice cubes in a pitcher.  Add the liquid you've strained and stir to combine.
  7. Serve it like that.
I made cinnamon brussels sprouts to go with mine, and it was ... good. The sprouts maybe weren't anything to write home about?  Dunno.  Like they were good, but not as good as the horchata.  The horchata's a keeper. <3

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