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Strawberry Horchata Recipe

Total Time15 minutes
Servings: 2 gallons

Equipment

  • blender

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup of white rice
  • 1 Stick of cinnamon
  • Lbs of strawberries
  • 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
  • 12 fl oz can of evaporated milk
  • ½ Teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • Sugar
  • Water
  • Red food coloring optional

Instructions

  • Soak the rice and cinnamon: Get out a bowl or a Tupperware container and add the rice, cinnamon stick, and 2 cups of water to it. Place this in your fridge and let it soak for at least 4 hours or better yet overnight.
  • Blend up the rice & cinnamon: Add the soaked rice & cinnamon along with the 2 cups of water to a blender. Blend it on high until it is completely smooth. Finally, strain this liquid into a large pitcher and discard the leftover pulp.
  • Blend up the strawberries: Add only one pound of the strawberries to a blender along with an additional 2 cups of water. Reserve the remaining ½ pound of strawberries for later. Blend the strawberries until they are completely smooth. Finally, strain the liquid into the same pitcher that has the rice/cinnamon water and discard the leftover pulp.
  • Add the sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and vanilla extract to the pitcher and stir everything together.
  • Adjust the horchata to your personal taste: At this point, you should have concentrated horchata and need to adjust it by adding in more water, sugar, and red food coloring (optional). Start by adding in one cup of water at a time until the horchata is as thick/thin as you like. I personally use two cups of water. Next, you are going to want to taste the horchata for sweetness. So add in ¼ cup of sugar at a time, mix it in, and taste it until the horchata is a sweet as you like it. I typically end up adding an additional cup of sugar to mine. Finally, you can add in a couple of drops of red food coloring if you want your horchata to have a redder coloration.
  • Prepare some glasses for the horchata: Most people at this point will cool down the horchata by adding ice to the pitcher. However, I find that doing so can end up diluting the horchata. Instead, I like to add ice to the glasses that I’ll be serving the horchata in. So fill up some glasses with ice. Next, we want to dice up the ½ pound of strawberries that we reserved earlier and add some to each glass. Once that’s done we can pour the horchata into the glasses.
  • Serve the strawberry horchata and enjoy!