{"id":13056,"date":"2023-04-28T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kawalingpinoy.com\/?p=13056"},"modified":"2023-04-29T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T21:07:12","slug":"horchata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kawalingpinoy.com\/horchata\/","title":{"rendered":"Horchata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Horchata is a type of Mexican agua fresca made with ground rice, milk, and cinnamon. It's creamy, refreshing, and delicious. The perfect drink for a hot Summer day!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was sweltering hot in my neck of the woods these past couple of days; it was like the training grounds for down below. Summer is, indeed, around the corner, and the heat is on! Even with the a\/c blaring its mightiest, the kitchen was the last place I wanted to be. I haven't done much cooking and mostly spent days chugging down the coldest drinks I could get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have great love<\/a> for Mexican cuisine, and this affection definitely extends to its many types of agua frescas, such as the tamarind drink<\/a> I shared a month ago and this horchata made of ground rice, sweetened milk, and cinnamon. If you ask me, nothing washes down a great meal of shrimp fajitas<\/a> better than an icy cold glass of this milky drink. It's refreshing as it is delicious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horchata is a rice-based, non-alcoholic drink popular in Latin American countries, including Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It comes from the Latin word \u201cHordeum,\u201d which means barley. It\u2019s believed that this drink originated in North Africa before spreading to Spain and Latin America during the medieval period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's slightly sweet and creamy and includes ingredients such as milk, sugar, rice, cinnamon, and vanilla. Some variations use sesame seeds, almonds, or other nuts as a base in place or in addition to rice. However, the original version from Valenciana, Spain, is made from tubers called chufas<\/em> or tigernuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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