Vegan Warm Cinnamon Horchata with Whole Grains and Almonds
Wow your friends with this unusual hot drink. You make a plant-based milk with oats, rice, and almonds and flavor it with cinnamon and vanilla. Then heat it up and warm yourself up!
Servings: 3servings
Author: Kathy Hester
Ingredients
Overnight Soak Ingredients:
3cupswater
1/4cupraw almonds
1/4cuplong grain brown rice
1/4cupsteel cut oatsor an additional 1/4 cup brown rice
3cinnamon sticks
Heating Ingredients:
sweetener of choiceto taste (I used 1/4 cup raw sugar)
1teaspoonvanilla
pinchof saltoptional
Instructions
Add the water, almonds, brown rice, oats, and cinnamon sticks to your blender and soak overnight or up to 12 hours.
Transfer the cinnamon sticks to a medium saucepan, then blend the rest of the ingredients until smooth. Strain through a fine mesh strainer or nut milk bag into the saucepan.
Add the sweetener, vanilla, and pinch of salt, if using, then heat over low heat, stirring constantly to keep the oat milk from forming small lumps until it's just hot.
If there are some lumps, just pop it back into the blender and it will come out creamy.