This is gooey and a waste of time. Soak a cup of uncooked rice in water overnight. Discard water and place the rice, a can of evaporated milk and about 4 cups of water in a blender. Mix. Add 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp cinnamon and blend well. Strain through a cheesecloth a few times and serve over ice. Easier and way better, i promise.
This recipe turned out great except you can't follow the instructions completely. First instead of a cinnamon stick I substituted ground cinnamon. Second I added 1 quart(4 cups) milk)in addition to the other ingredients. Then I heated up the mixture not waiting the 3 hours just until it was hot not boiling. Pureeed the mixture till smooth and strained it. Then I chilled the mixture. Excellent.
Being Mexican myself I'm biased when it comes to Mexican recipes. However I do love horchata. It takes alot of time to prepare but it is worth it. My nieces and newphews love it but then again they are also Mexican:-). My fiancé on the other hand is white and he can't get enought of this drink. I decided to learn how to make it for him and that is what brought me here. So even though it isn't especially easy to make it is worth it just for it's delicious taste.
I read the recipe then the other posts here and had to laugh. The person who posted this recipe skipped a crucial step: STRAINING the horchata (Do you really think we can drink something that has cinnamon bark in it without straining it?). Funny. Also I usually like to let the rice mixture sit overnight then you don't have to cook it and lose its lovely fresh milky flavor.
The measurements for the water and sugar in this recipe must be WAY off. I followed everything precisely and what I ended up with was a very thick milkshike-type drink. Nothing at all like real Horchata I grew up in my Mexican household. I had to add about 3 more quarts of water (and consequently another few cups of sugar)to make the drink thin enough and sweet enough to drink. In the end it still tasted like pureed rice pudding and not like Horchata. I was skeptical when reading this recipe at first because of the directions to cook the rice. I knew that would make it very starchy but proceeded anyway. I was very disappointed. I guess the hunt still continues for a good Horchata recipe.:-(
The proportions are definitely off. After blending 'til smooth this was a thick rice milkshake not a refreshing rice drink. Look elsewhere for a good horchata recipie.
After reading the reviews I made LatinaCook's recipe instead. The only variation I made was to add a touch of almond extract. Nice drink for a change of pace...
With all due respect to the author this did not come close to the authentic horchata my family is used to drinking. I was disappointed to find white sludge after I followed the recipe exactly.
This did not turn out well at all. It looked like rice pudding after cooking and after blending it turned into a rice shake.
