A breakfast that's quick, nourishing, adaptable, and uses up leftovers? Yes, please!
We originally found this Hot Rice Breakfast Drink recipe at Whole Living. It's simply a combination of cooked rice, heated in a pan with milk to cover, and flavored with honey and cinnamon. The result is warm, creamy, and very easy to make first thing in the morning – perhaps with leftover rice from dinner the night before.
The original recipe calls for skim milk, but we have made it with whole milk and hemp milk and any other alternative milk would do. We have also enjoyed it with a drop of rose water and sprinkle of cardamom.
You can serve it as is or whiz it in a blender to give it a smooth consistency, which makes this kind of like a hot horchata. We just use a hand whisk to froth it up before pouring into a glass.
Get the recipe: Hot Rice Breakfast Drink at Whole Living
Related: Making Horchata: Which Rice Is Best?
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Thing is, what happens if all the rice you ever cook -- so there's leftovers of -- has salt in it? I cook brown rice almost every day for lunch, so I always have leftovers. But I always add salt to it.
I suppose I could do this from scratch, anyway... My version would be brown rice + almond milk + ground cinnamon and cloves + bit of brown sugar... Hmmmm!
Ok, I just went over to the thread on suggestions of uses for leftover rice, but since the last comment is dated in 2009, I'll leave a comment here:
Usually, when I have leftover lentils -- or beans -- and rice, I throw the whole thing in the food processor, mash it, add flour and/or an egg to the mixture and make veggie burgers, which I fry in olive oil. The other day I made lentil patties and a cucumber-yogurt sauce and filled pita pockets with it. My version of falafel. ;)
I tend to just use rice milk - cold or hot mixed in with cinamon and honey, or made into a shake using blueberries, bananas and a tbsp of porridge oats.
My grandmother always made this for us with breakfast. Instead of cinnamin, add a boiled potato (cut up) and some salt. It's delicious.