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Keep the cooked rice on a tray in a single layer to let it completely cool down. Rinse the rice in a bowl of cold water draining and refilling it until the water is clear.
Transfer the rice to clean containers and secure them.
Making chinese rice wine. To make your own rice wine rinse and soak 2 cups of sticky or glutinous rice then steam the rice for about 25 minutes. Once the rice is cooked spread it into a thin layer on a cookie sheet and let it cool. Mix yeast powder with the rice then place the rice in an air tight container.
This is how she makes chinese rice wine. It is surprisingly easy to make. Chinese rice wine recipe.
Adapted from grandma chow. This recipe makes approximately 1 bottle of rice wine. If you want to make a larger batch use 5 pounds of rice 6 balls of alcohol powder and adjust the remaining ingredients accordingly.
1 1 2 lbs glutinous rice also known as sweet rice. Use a medium sized grain if you have a choice. Rice wine recipe homemade rice wine for christmas.
Making wine at home brings in a festive mood though i do make wine at home often i have not posted other than the pineapple peel wine rice wine is easy to make and even a novice cook can make this easy homemade wine. Rinse the rice in a bowl of cold water draining and refilling it until the water is clear. Add the rice to a saucepan.
Step 2 bring the water to a boil and then set the heat to low. Cook the glutinous rice in a rice cooker with a bit more water than usual. When the rice is cooked spread the rice in a large tray and leave it aside until the rice is completely cool.
I cooked the rice in the morning and started the wine making process in the evening. Pound the red rice yeast and wine yeast together till powdery form. Keep the cooked rice on a tray in a single layer to let it completely cool down.
You will get sour taste of wine if rice not completely cool down prefer to cool it overnight. Process the wine biscuits in a food processor till fine. Take a small ball of cooked rice flatten it like a disc.
Then coat with powdered wine biscuits. Start by soaking four cups of rice in hot water then drain the rice and steam it for 30 minutes let it cool down. Then grind a fourth of the chinese yeast ball and mix it with a teaspoon of flour.
Add this mix to the rice. Transfer the rice to clean containers and secure them. Rice wine has been a part of chinese culture for thousands of years.
Rice wine is also widely known as huangjiu yellow wine and is different than baijiu because it is not distilled. The beverage is so ingrained in the culture that the roots of it are intertwined with myth. The exact date of invention is the subject of fierce dispute.