Amazake Recipe (Japanese Fermented Rice Drink)
Amazake is a traditional Japanese fermented drink. It's sweet, healthy, nutrient-rich, and boosts your energy level. How to make it is so simple and easy. Let's learn how!
Ingredients
Instructions
- Sterilize container: Clean your yogurt maker container, put some water, heat in a microwave for one and a half minutes to sterilize, and drain water.
- Prepare koji rice: Separate rice grains of koji rice before opening the package and put them in the sterilized container.
- Boil water: Pour 400ml water into a small pot and heat it to 63C-65C (145F-149F) using a thermometer.
- Mix water and koji rice: Pour water into the container and mix well with koji rice.
- Fermentation: Set your yogurt maker at 60C (140F) for 6 hours, put the container in it, and start fermentation.
- Storage: Transfer in a glass jar and keep it in the fridge.
Notes
- Equipment: TANICA Yogurutia for fermentation, TANITA Digital Thermometer for checking the temperature, and a glass jar.
- Storage: It will last for 7 to 10 days in the fridge and one month in the freezer. Fermentation continues in the fridge, so please drink it before it becomes sour.
- One serving is 100ml.
- Using a yogurt maker might differ from yours, so please follow your yogurt maker's instructions.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1servingCalories: 92kcalProtein: 2.3gSodium: 94.7mgSugar: 18g
This nutritional information is estimated and provided for general reference only.