Pineapple Horchata(mexico)

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pineapple
• 12 cups water
• 1 cup rice (i like to use brown rice but is traditional)
• 1 cup sugar (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 trim and core the pineapple, adding the pieces to a large pot(just use core and skin trimmings-so thrifty!).
• 2 sprinkle in the rice and water. mix it up good.
• 3 let simmer, covered, for 30 minutes. remove the skin and core, then puree the rice water with up to 2 cups cubed pineapple.
• 4 you can use an immersion blender, or a regular blender but be careful – cool before blending.
• 5 strain the horchata and whisk together with as much sugar as you’d like. one cup is about right.
• 6 you may drink this straight and it will be a smoothie consistency, or you can dilute it with water to make a thinner cocoction.
• 7 either way , add a spear of sweet pineapple.