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Easy Cheat Horchata (Vegan + GF)

Last updated - July 15, 2021; Published - August 28, 2016 By Rhian Williams 8 Comments

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This Easy Cheat Horchata is light and refreshing, subtly spiced and inconspicuously healthy!

Easy Cheat Horchata (Vegan + GF)

Horchata is the perfect drink to accompany any Mexican meal, from nachos and quesadillas to tacos and burritos. It's also delicious on its own as a refreshing cold drink on a summer's day, and it's especially handy to have a jug of it around when catering for a thirsty crowd!

As it's naturally vegan and gluten-free, it conveniently covers a wide range of dietary requirements too.

The Mexican drink horchata is traditionally made by blending up soaked rice and almonds. It's flavoured with cinnamon and sugar is usually added, sometimes in the form of condensed milk.

As much as I love this drink, I'm definitely not a fan of this time-consuming process of soaking the rice and almonds and then blending them, especially as it also requires a lot of washing up.

I prefer to keep things simple, so decided to ditch all the soaking and blending and just mix together some store-bought rice milk and almond milk instead.

As rice milk is already pretty sweet, I prefer to buy an unsweetened almond milk. And although Horchata usually contains added sugar, I really don't think it needs it. And so, this super easy, 3-ingredient (cheat) version of mine was created!

The recipe below is for one, but you can double as you please.

For more Mexican recipes, check out my:

  • Vegan Stretchy Melty Cheese Nachos
  • Vegan Stretchy Melty Cheese Quesadillas
  • Mango Salsa

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Easy Cheat Horchata (Vegan + GF)

Easy Cheat Horchata (Vegan + GF)

This Easy Cheat Horchata is light and refreshing, subtly spiced and inconspicuously healthy! 
4.13 from 16 votes
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Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: easy horchata, refined sugar free horcata, vegan horchata
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings: 1
Calories: 74kcal
Author: Rhian Williams

Ingredients

  • 120 ml (½ cup) rice milk
  • 120 ml (½ cup) unsweetened almond milk
  • Pinch ground cinnamon, to taste

Instructions

  • Mix together all ingredients
  • Best served cold with plenty of ice
Nutrition Facts
Easy Cheat Horchata (Vegan + GF)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 74
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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  1. Anonymous

    April 30, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    5 stars
    Love how easy this is - will be making this for Cinco de Mayo!

    Reply
    • Rhian Williams

      April 30, 2018 at 2:28 pm

      Thank you!

  2. Carol B Ferrer

    November 17, 2020 at 5:14 am

    I added Matcha to mine via Matcha Almond milk was really really good.

    Reply
    • Rhian Williams

      November 17, 2020 at 4:34 pm

      Thank you so much, so happy to hear that!

  3. Al

    May 06, 2021 at 6:04 am

    In Spain, orchata is made by soaking and processing Tiger nuts ; they add sugar to it, but I think that's awful... it already tastes sweet without it.
    I make mine plain, or with cinnamon and fresh ginger ; then I use the solid residue to make a cake or cookies...
    Tiger nuts are super healthy, with resistant starch present in the raw form!

    Reply
    • Rhian Williams

      May 06, 2021 at 11:05 am

      Thank you so much for sharing, I will definitely try this out!

  4. Chantelle Bell

    August 08, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    I make a similar version but I use monin cinnamon syrup so it adds an extended cinnamon taste and sweetness

    Reply
    • Rhian Williams

      August 09, 2022 at 11:31 am

      Thank you for sharing sounds delicious!

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