It's so good it's so incredible. Nowhere near me makes it though so I have to make it myself and that would be fine but I'm really bad at it :sadness
Soak rice overnight in water, and pulverize it in the water with a blender. Strain out the mix and keep cycling through the blender until you don't have big chunks. Don't overdo it on the water at first, you kinda want to make a concentrate so it's easier for the blender to pulverize.
Mix together sugar and cinnamon, then toss that into the blender with the rice slurry.
Dilute the mix with more water and some milk (maybe half mill half water?)
You can also sweeten with sweetened condensed milk instead of sugar if you want it to be extra rich.
Starting with rice flour instead of rice produces almost similar results; overall the slurry will be a little grainy compared to if you start from rice.
Subbing in other types of milk should work great too.
That's about what I did. I guess I will just have to practice, oh the woes of having to keep drinking it, so terrible.
What do you feel isn't right about how yours is coming out? For me the texture is really hard to nail down, I just can't get it as fine as I want it, but it's usually good enough that I'm happy with it.
The texture is the issue for me too. I have heard that using a cheesecloth helps but I don't have one.
Oh yep that would do it. I use a wire mesh strainer but it's not fine enough. I should definitely look out for a cheesecloth though.
I've never heard of horchata being made from rice, but a quick research and lo and behold, in the Americas it is made from rice instead of nuts? that's crazy to me - sounds kind of like smooth rice pudding or something. I'm sure its still good though
I've had the opposite experience, I've never heard of it being made with nuts. Its more like rice milk than rice pudding.
I've only ever heard of it being made with nuts in bougier American restaurants that are vegan friendly. It's fucking good though, I wouldn't be surprised if the idea originated elsewhere.
It's way too sweet.
Goes great with coffee and bourbon though.
I made some once, but the recipe had me fuckin around with a cheesecloth and that is way too involved for a drink
I used to work at a place with both amazing horchata and solid cold brew coffee and mixing the two (or drinking them side by side) was amazing. Such a good combo. But I was only able to do that for a few weeks right when the place opened, after which the owner succeeded in finding managers as awful as he was and we were made to pay full price for any of our drinks.
Need me some right now. Gonna ask my mom how she makes it again and maybe make some tomorrow.
There used to be this Mexican street food place near my house that made their own horchata and tepache, god I miss that place it was so good.
Me too. There are some horchata mixes that you can buy and just mix with water, some of them are decent.
This coffee stand nearby makes an amazing Matchata, and also a beautiful rose-flavored horchata. Horchata on its own is amazing, but I love how you can really go hogwild with the flavors if you want.
