Homemade Rice Wine
by Zhi Fei
Favorite
Difficulty
Normal
Time
24h
Serving
2
1. Ingredients for making rice wine.
2. Rinse the glutinous rice two to three times, soak it in cold water for 24 hours (the soaking process takes about 8 hours to change the water), then remove it and rinse it with clean water 2 to 3 times.
3. Put the steamer compartment in the rice cooker, wash the gauze and spread it on top.
4. Then pour the rice on top and steam it on the steamer (about half an hour),
5. Lift the gauze to cover the rice, and wrap the rice around tightly.
6. The rice cooker can be adjusted to the cooking position.
7. Clean the container and the lid of the rice wine, especially if there is no oily substance in the container. Use the boiling water to scald the container lid for more than 1 minute to sterilize it.
8. Pour boiling water into the container and close the lid and wait a few minutes.
9. Use a small amount of cold boiled water to disperse the koji (the water does not need to be too much, it is enough to disperse the koji.)
10. Open the lid of the steamed rice.
11. After getting out of the basket, break it up and cool it down to not hot (about 35°C). If the rice is too dry or has stubbornness, sprinkle a small amount of water on the rice and steam it again.
12. Put the cold rice into the sterilized container, and then add about 200ml of cold boiled water and stir evenly.
13. Pour the washed distiller's yeast into the glutinous rice.
14. Stir the glutinous rice well.
15. Dig a round hole in the center of the rice. (To make 500 grams of glutinous rice or rice, you need about 200ml of cold water, but the glutinous rice is too hard after cooling, so you can add more cold water; if it is too soft, you can put less cold water; the amount of koji can be purchased according to you The configuration instructions on the package of koji)
16. Put the container with glutinous rice into the rice wine machine, select the rice wine function, and then time (usually 30-36 hours).
17. Fermented rice wine.
18. You can eat it directly or make some rice wine desserts, and keep the rest in the refrigerator.
