Want to try the best-tasting horchata ever? With rice milk from Better Than Milk, and a couple additional healthy ingredients, you can make a delicious, smooth and healthy horchata.

Healthy Horchata

Today is Cinco de Mayo. You may know people who are drinking horchata, a sweetened beverage made from milk, rice, sugar and cinnamon.

However, the way horchata is usually made, with tons of sugar, it’s not exactly healthy-supportive. It also doesn’t lend itself well to vegans or people who cannot tolerate dairy.

Why miss out on a fun tradition simply because of such technicalities when there are easy alternatives?

Better Than Milk Rice Milk

For this recipe, we used organic unsweetened rice milk from Better Than Milk. This is a fabulous new premium brand of plant milks, that sent us review samples of rice milk, almond milk and oat milk.

Better Than Milk’s entire product line is organic. They use spring water instead of the usual filtered water. And the milks come packaged in a TetraPak, which makes it shelf-stable for months until it is opened. This is unlike most other competing brands, which require constant refrigeration, even prior to opening.

Here’s a simple recipe that is health-supportive, vegan and low in sugar. The ingredient amounts are approximate.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Better Than Milk organic unsweetened rice milk

• 1-2 sticks Frontier Coop Ceylon cinnamon sticks (or 1/2 Tbsp of ground cinnamon)

• 2-3 organic Deglet Noor dates

• 1 Tbsp Frontier Coop organic vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Pour the rice milk into a high-speed blender.

2. Throw in some non-irradiated cinnamon sticks from Frontier Coop, the dates and the vanilla extract. (If you don’t have a high-speed blender, then use ground cinnamon instead of cinnamon sticks.)

3. Blend on high for about 30 seconds.

In just a couple of minutes, you will be drinking creamy, delicious and incredibly healthy horchata!

Have you tried horchata before? How do you make yours?