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homemade rice milk in carafes with brown rice scattered on marble tabletop

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Homemade Rice Milk

Course: Beverage
Cuisine: Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Vegan
Keyword: homemade rice milk
Servings: 8
Calories: 8kcal
This homemade rice milk is a super easy vegan milk substitute, plus it saves you money and helps you avoid all of the additives typically found in store bought rice milk.
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup cooked rice
  • 4 cups water (filtered, if possible)
  • pinch salt
  • 1 tablespoon sweetener (or to taste; optional)
  • Vanilla extract (for vanilla-flavored milk; to taste)

Instructions

  • Place all ingredients in blender.
  • Blend for four minutes in a regular blender, or two minutes in a high-speed blender like a Vitamix.
  • Use in recipes or drink as you would regular milk.
  • Store in refrigerator for 3-4 days.

Notes

  • Rice Amount: Use more or less rice, depending on what you would like the consistency of the final product to be. Standard rice milk is thinner than full fat cow's milk, but it's of course your choice what consistency desire.
  • Water: It's crucial that you use filtered water for this recipe. My post on how to make your tap water safe goes into more details about tap water contamination concerns.
  • Time Saving Tip
    Prepare extra rice ahead of time
    and portion it out in 1 cup increments in small food-safe plastic bags and store in the freezer for future rice milk making. For this purpose, I love using Twixit Clips (any kind of clip will work, but these clips are simply amazing. They last a very long time, have a lifetime guarantee and are so much easier to use than those pesky twist-ties! Simply thaw out the rice whenever you need rice milk. Bonus time saver, if you have a Vitamix or other high speed blender, it can handle the rice frozen! Simply pop the frozen rice into the blender with the filtered water and blend.
  • Flavored Milk:
    Add flavorings
    like chocolate, strawberry, or coconut--the sky's the limit! Think of all the variations you could make.
  • Buy a Vitamix
    If you've been thinking about a Vitamix and someone in your family has an allergy to dairy, you won't believe how much time and money this machine will save you. And clean up is a breeze! There are other high speed blenders, but the Vitamix is my hands down favorite.
  • Quick Cooling Tip - Make ice cubes out of this Homemade Rice Milk to increase longevity, or to have on hand for putting into hot cereals, hot coffee, hot tea, hot chocolate (or this coffee substitute) to cool them off more quickly than regular rice milk would do.

Nutrition

Calories: 8kcal | Carbohydrates: 1.66g | Protein: 0.14g | Fat: 0.01g | Potassium: 1.69mg | Fiber: 0.02g | Iron: 0.2mg | Net Carbs: 2g