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Chocolate Horchata - homemadehome.com Utterly rich and chocolatey

Chocolate Horchata

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  • Author: Megan Keno
  • Prep Time: 4 hours
  • Cooling Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 6 hours
  • Yield: 8 servings 1x
  • Category: Beverage
  • Cuisine: Mexican

Description

Ultra rich and made the traditional way, this chocolate horchata will have you  wishing you were south of the border!


Ingredients

Units Scale
  • 1 1/2 cups Long Grain Rice* See Note
  • 5 cups Water* See Note
  • 2 cups Whole Milk
  • 1 cup Heavy Cream
  • 1 (14-ounce) can Unsweetened Coconut Milk
  • 6 ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate, chopped
  • 1 Vanilla Bean, scraped and seeded
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Tbsp Ground Cinnamon

Instructions

  1. If preparing Rice Milk from scratch, see below. If using store bought rice milk, please move to step 2.  Place uncooked rice and water in a blender and blend until rice begins to break up, approximately 2 minutes. Pour water and rice in a pitcher and let stand for at least 4 hours.
  2. While the rice is steeping in water, place the milk, cream and coconut milk into a saucepan.
  3. Bring to a simmer and continue to stir. Once simmering, remove from the heat.
  4. Stir chopped chocolate into the hot milk mixture until thoroughly melted and mixed in.
  5. Stir in the sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.
  6. When the rice/water is done steeping, pour through a fine strainer/sieve to remove the rice. Discard the rice.
  7. In the blender, mix together the chocolate milk mixture and the rice mixture. Do this in smaller pours to make sure you do not overflow your blender.
  8. Pour the complete mixture into a large pitcher and place in the fridge to chill completely.
  9. Serve in chilled glasses. Dust with additional cinnamon for garnish.

Notes

*Substitute prepared store bought rice milk for first two ingredients*

Mildly adapted from Mezzo’s Chocolate Horchata from Salt Lake City Chef’s Table Cookbook, from Becky and Josh Rosenthal