Rice milk

With the transition to veganism, I tried several recipes for vegetable milk from different varieties of rice. The most saturated and delicious rice milk is obtained from red or brown rice. Here I step by step tell how to cook rice milk. Look, try to cook and do not forget to write in the comments what you did.

I’ll tell you a little secret right away: in order for rice milk to get a more pronounced flavor, rice needs to be slightly browned in a dry frying pan. In this recipe, I show how to cook rice milk without heat treatment. For my taste, raw raw rice milk is tastier and more vibrant than we would have boiled it, as in many recipes.

How to make rice milk at home?

To make rice milk, you need a blender (to grind) and gauze (to strain). You can use a regular stationary or manual blender, and it’s best to take a bag special for filtering nut milk (I advise you to get one), but if this is not the case, you can strain it through gauze, a thin towel or a simple strainer.

Benefit and harm

Rice milk is well absorbed and digested, so it can be drunk without problems with gastritis and pancreatitis. Also, due to the low fat content, rice milk can be drunk while losing weight on a diet.
Rice milk has a high glycemic index (86 ± 7), which means that the carbohydrates contained in it are absorbed extremely quickly by the body, dramatically increasing blood sugar. Therefore, with diabetes, this drink is better not to drink.

Rice milk for children

Like many other herbal drinks, a home-made rice drink does not have enough nutrients to become a complete substitute for breast milk. Therefore, children under one year of age (infants) such milk will not work.
Children are advised to drink rice milk starting at the age of two, but in small quantities.

Taste

Cooked rice milk tastes sweetish, so it’s better to cook rice milk without adding sugar. But if desired, you can add syrup, dates or any other sweetener.

Storage

To store such milk should be no longer than 2 days in the refrigerator. And before use, do not always forget to shake.

Why doesn't rice milk froth into foam?

Protein content plays an important role in the production of foam. Protein is not enough in rice milk to make a good foam.