Rice Coffee
By: Alisa Escanlar
Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 1:50pm

Ingredients




1 cup rice

Preparation

1 Heat a wok or a frying pan 2 Take a cup of rice and pour it on the hot wok. 3 Slowly roast the rice stirring occasionally until very dark brown. 4 Let roasted rice cool a little then grind it. 5 Pour boiling water over the ground rice and let steep for 5 mins. 6 Strain, pour and enjoy!

About


When I was young my mother used to make coffee out of roasted rice grains because she said it was caffeine-free. Her mother taught her how to make it and said this was how the rice farmers used to make their coffee before they had access to instant coffee. She would make this in the morning and the sweet smell of rice roasting always woke me up.
You can sweeten it with honey, muscovado sugar or brown sugar.