Pera-Piña [Recipe + Video] Rice and Pineapple Juice

🧂 Ingredients

• Peel (rind) and core of 1 pineapple

  (see notes)
• ½ cup rice
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sugar (white, granulated)

  (or to taste)

Instructions

• 1 Cut the pineapple peel and core into small pieces.
• 2 Combine pineapple rind and core with rice and 2 quarts [2 lt] of water in a
  large pot.
  
  Simmer covered over low heat until the rice is very tender and has tripled in
  size (about 20 minutes after it breaks the boil), adding water as it becomes
  necessary to maintain the same level. Remove from the heat.
• 3 Add vanilla extract, and let it cool to room temperature, blend until all the
  ingredients are liquified.
  
  Strain and discard the solids. Add sugar to taste.
• 4 Serve chilled.

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