Non-Dairy Horchata - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup basmati rice
6 cardamom pods, seeds removed and crushed
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or more to taste
1/3 cup peeled, slivered almonds
5 cups water
1/4 cup white sugar

Preparation

Place rice in a blender and grind to a fine texture. Transfer to a large pitcher. Add crushed cardamom and cinnamon.
Grind almonds and 1/3 cup water together in the blender. Add to rice mixture in the pitcher. Add 4 cups water and stir. Cover pitcher and let horchata sit 8 hours to overnight.
Transfer horchata to the blender and add sugar. Blend, gradually adding 2/3 cup water, until smooth. Pour mixture through cheesecloth into a separate container, squeezing gently to extract the milk. Refrigerate horchata 15 minutes before serving.