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You're making a creamy rice milk drink that takes about 8 hours total (mostly soaking overnight). Start by grinding rice with cinnamon, let it soak overnight, then blend, strain, and sweeten with vanilla and condensed milk in the morning—the trickiest part is getting two rounds of blending and straining out of the rice to maximize flavor.

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Grind the rice

Put the dry rice into a blender and grind it into small pieces, so the water can later soak up the rice flavour more easily.
Ingredients
- 250 gram Long-grain rice
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Soak the rice

Cover with water and break in 6 cinnamon sticks.
Ingredients
- 500 milliliter Water
- 20 gram Whole Cinnamon Sticks
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Blend in the morning

The next morning, tip everything, cinnamon included, into the blender and blend again until the rice and cinnamon are completely broken down. Strain the liquid through a cloth.

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Add more water and blend again

Take whatever is left in the strainer, put it back into the blender, cover with fresh water and blend once more, so you get the most out of the rice.
Ingredients
- 200 milliliter Water
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Strain again

Strain through the sieve once more, then you can discard the leftover rice and cinnamon in the strainer.
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Sweeten it

Stir in a can of unsweetened condensed milk, sugar and the scraped-out seeds of a vanilla pod (you can also use sweetened condensed milk, but in that case skip the extra sugar), then mix everything together well.
Ingredients
- 250 milliliter Unsweetened Condensed Milk
- 50 gram Granulated Sugar
- 1 piece Vanilla Bean
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Serving

And that's it! Keep it in the fridge, where it will stay good for 2–3 days, and always stir before serving, as rice sediment will settle at the bottom (it's completely harmless). Serve well chilled in summer, or warm it up a little in winter if you like.

Mexican Horchata

Name: Refreshing Mexican Horchata
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 511 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 50 gram Granulated Sugar; 20 gram Whole Cinnamon Sticks; 250 milliliter Unsweetened Condensed Milk; 700 milliliter Water; 250 gram Long-grain rice; 1 piece Vanilla Bean

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Prep 25 min Cook —

Plus overnight of resting (not counted in active time)

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About this recipe

A drink as white as milk. Well, it actually is milk – rice milk, flavoured with cinnamon and vanilla. In Mexico you can buy it on every corner, quite literally – locals make it at home and sell it in plastic half-litre bottles. So let's make our own!

Vegetarian Gluten-free Sweet Mexico Drink