Cooking With Rice Milk
While you may have come across Rice Dream, the common brand of rice milk found at the supermarket, did you know you can prepare your own rice beverage within the comforts of your own home? Rice milk is a type of grain milk that you may fall in love with once you try. Most of its flavor comes from brown rice that is usually sweetened with sugarcane syrup. When compared to the milk that comes out of a cow – it possesses more carbohydrates, but fails as a proper source of calcium and protein.
When purchasing rice milk out of the grocery store, these products have been fortified with minerals and vitamins, such as iron, calcium, vitamin B12, and vitamin B3. Commercial brands also offer various flavors, such as chocolate or vanilla. An unflavored selection is supplied for those who wish to substitute rice milk for cow’s milk in a recipe.
All over the world, there are different forms of rice milk, such as kokkok – of Thai origin. Brown rice is its main ingredient and sometimes the only thing added to the beverage. When preparing a kokkah recipe, other rice selections and seasonings are sometimes used, such as sesame, barley, sweet rice, and/or azuki bean. A recipe for homemade rice milk is listed below:
Rice Milk
Ingredients
2/3 cup of hot rice
3 cups of hot water
1/3 cup of cashews
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of honey
Instructions
1) Simply place all of the ingredients in a blender. Mix.
2) Chill before serving.

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