Sunday, June 19, 2016

Korean rice punch (Sikhye - 식혜)

I am planning to make this soon and I thought, maybe someone out here wants to try this themselves. Always fun to try something new, no?

All credits got to Kimchi Mari for this recipe: http://ift.tt/23jAViW

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cup yeotkireum (엿기름) or milled malt barley
  • 10 cup water
  • 1 cup short grain rice
  • 3/4 ~ 1 cup sugar (depending on how sweet you want it)
  • pine nuts/dried jujubes/citron syrup/mint leaves (optional)

Directions

  • Soak the crushed milled malt barley in warm water for 1 hour.
  • Strain malt barley water
  • Rest the strained malt water for 2~3 hrs
  • In the mean time, cook 1 cup of rice. When cooking rice, use less water to produce a drier rice.
  • Add the top liquid part of the malt barley water to the rice cooker with the cooked rice already in it.
  • Keep the rice + malt barley liquid mixture warm ( use the ‘keep warm’ option) in the rice cooker for around 5 hrs or more until about 4~5 rice granules rise to the top
  • Strain rice from liquid and rinse under running cold water and drain. Store in the fridge.
  • Pour the liquid (and the rice, if you chose option 7.2) into a large pot and any remaining liquid from step 5, again making sure white sediments are not added. Add sugar.
  • Boil on medium heat for 10 minutes. Skim off any foam while it’s boiling.


bon appetit

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