I add yogurt to brown rice amazake and have it for breakfast.

September 15, 2022

My bread maker has an amazake mode, so I immediately tried making it using Inazo 's dried rice koji "Akita Komachi" and white koji No. 2 bacteria.

The raw material is not white rice, but Inazo's famous milky brown rice .

Let's see. The included recipe is

・300g warm rice
・Water 400cc
・200g dried rice koji

Mix these ingredients and wait for 6 hours. I realized later that it's better to make the rice quite soft.

Amazake can be made with equipment that can maintain a temperature of around 65°C, but regular stirring is required.

With a bread machine, the blades you use to knead the dough automatically mix it, making it super easy.

By the way, although the name "amazake" contains the character "sake" (alcohol), it contains zero alcohol.

Amazake has:

1. sake lees
2. Rice, rice koji, water

There are two types made from

Cheap commercial products are made by removing the alcohol from scratch, adding sugar, and adding preservatives. If you are buying a ready-made product, be sure to check the ingredients.

So, what does the koji mold in rice koji do to the rice that is mixed in?

It simply breaks down starch into sugars!

There are several types of "sugars" that are broken down, not only into glucose but also into oligosaccharides, which serve as food for intestinal bacteria.

Normally, when you eat rice, the amylase contained in your salivary glands breaks down the starch into sugar, but with amazake, you directly ingest glucose, so it is absorbed into the body extremely quickly.

It's called "drinkable IV drip" because it's extremely effective in relieving fatigue. But be careful, if you drink too much, your blood sugar will go BAGOOOOON!

Amazake is said to have skin-beautifying and intestinal-regulating effects, and this is probably what makes it so appealing to women.

In fact, since starch is broken down into oligosaccharides, there is no doubt that it has a bowel-regulating effect.

The skin-beautifying effect was discovered by Kose Cosmetics, which focused on the beautiful hands of sake brewers, and discovered that rice koji contains organic acids that suppress the production of melanin, which causes blemishes .

It became known after it was named "kojic acid" and approved .

It works when applied topically, but it's unclear whether it works when taken orally. However, if it has a bowel-regulating effect, it must have a positive effect on your physical condition, which means it may ultimately have a skin-beautifying effect. It also boosts your immune system (← this is the real purpose).

...I waited for six hours, thinking about this and that.

The timer goes off and I open the lid.

Hmm? It's more like a thick porridge , like shark fin egg soup, rather than a drink . It's more like a food than a drink.

Wow! The combination of the white of the rice koji and the brown of the brown rice is vibrant.

Scoop it up with a ladle and taste it.

N-n-n!!

I never thought amazake would be this sweet... It's been a while since I last drank it, but none of the other amazake I've tried have been as sweet as this one.

Is it the sweetness that Guts Ishimatsu, who grew up in dire poverty, felt when he ate a banana for the first time? Hmm, something's not quite right...

It was that sweet, but it was subtle and bold, with a very elegant and fruity sweetness.

And it's made with brown rice! This is the much talked about brown rice amazake. Vitamins B & E and dietary fiber are still intact.

Even if it's soft, milky brown rice, even if it's cooked well, it's not sweet and isn't very tasty.

However, when it is made into amazake, it becomes so tender. This is because the proteolytic enzymes break down the proteins into amino acids, the same action that makes meat tender when made with shio koji.

This can also be used as a seasoning in place of sugar, just like making shio koji or shoyu koji instead of using salt or soy sauce directly .

I had a hunch that this would go well with yogurt (YG), so I immediately tried mixing it with unsweetened Greek-style yogurt made by a yogurt manufacturer.

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Seriously, you can't put jam or sugar in YG! In the future, sweet sake is the only thing you can put in YG.

Moreover, certain types of sugar are said to promote the growth of bifidobacteria, so they are a perfect match from a scientific perspective. (Although there are YGs that do not contain bifidobacteria... )

Because it's made with brown rice, it keeps you full for a long time. It's perfect for people who can't eat breakfast. It's also good as a dessert after dinner.

In other words, the moment I took a bite, the Japanese-Western fusion " Greek-style YG with Brown Rice Amazake" became a dish I wanted to eat somewhere every day.