What is distiller's grains and how to do it?

) Formerly called "Yi", it is a traditional specialty wine of the Han nationality. A sweet rice wine fermented by steamed glutinous rice mixed koji (a special microbial yeast) is called mash, fermented rice wine, sweet wine, sweet rice wine, glutinous rice wine and distiller's grains all over China.

nutritive value

The wine has a sweet taste and is made by fermenting cooked glutinous rice with medicated wine. Filter out the rice

Fermented grains and primary distillation are both rice wine-rice wine has a certain stamina. Fermented grains have not been filtered and purified, and the degree is very low. When the weather is hot, Noemie Zi Yuan is added as a snack, which is a little sour, a little sweet and has the taste of wine. Southerners mix eggs and milk with fermented wine, which is a postpartum tonic and tastes good.

Rice wine generally refers to the wine brewed from rice. Slightly better rice wine is generally purified by filtration and distillation, which is not sweet and has a heavy wine flavor. More suitable for people who love to drink.

Functional indication

Ganxinwen brewed with wine contains sugar, organic acids, vitamin B 1, B2, etc. , can benefit qi and promote fluid production, and promote blood circulation.

Brewing wine, dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling. It is not only beneficial for pregnant women to induce diuresis and reduce swelling, but also suitable for lactating women to promote lactation.

It is a kind of flavor food made from glutinous rice by fermentation, which is deeply loved by people. It produces high calories and is rich in carbohydrates, protein, B vitamins, minerals, etc. It is an indispensable nutrient for human body. B vitamins can promote milk secretion. Fermented wine contains a small amount of alcohol, which can promote blood circulation, help digestion and stimulate appetite. The quantity and quality of milk will naturally increase with the increase of diet and adequate nutrition of lactating mothers.

Indications: benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Medicinal value

1 can't cure acne: use water chestnut to pound juice and stew it with white wine, but don't stew it with fire. This is not good, so be careful. (Compendium of Prescription)

② Treatment of swelling and pain caused by nasal wind blowing in children: fermenting wine and pounding chrysanthemum leaves. A leafless root. Chamomile leaves are particularly good, and mashing and juicing are more effective for kimono. (secret recipe of Liu's experience)

③ Treatment of chest blow: fry the tender ramie root, brew a little with white wine, mash it, and apply it to the affected area for the night. Avoid eating hair. ("Zhou Yisheng Jiabao Fang")

④ Curing head wind: Xanthium sibiricum, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Herba Eriocauli each cost five yuan, Chuanxiong San Qian, and four liang of sweet wine. Two bowls of wine and one bowl of clothes. (Miao Jing Fang)

3 production methods Edit production raw materials

Glutinous rice/rice, sweet wine koji (available in supermarkets, packaged in small bags, indicating the dosage)

production process

1. Use a rice cooker to cook glutinous rice (ordinary rice is also acceptable), using less water than usual. The rice is well cooked, but the grain is hard.

2. After it is completely cooled, put the glutinous rice into the basket and rinse it under the faucet to wash away the sticky things on the rice grains. (If rice is selected, this step can be omitted. )

3. Put the glutinous rice into the container. Sprinkle some wine and medicine on each layer of rice. Sprinkle wine medicine and a little warm water on it. (Or mix koji with warm water, cover with rice and mix well. )

4. Compact the glutinous rice by hand and drill a hole in the middle of the rice, so that the glutinous rice wine can come out.

Step 5 cover the container with a lid

Put it in the oven, turn on the light in the oven, and you can smell the wine in a few hours. After 24 hours, it is enough to see glutinous rice floating in the wine. If you are not in a hurry to eat, you don't need an oven. Put it next to the heater in winter, about 3-4 days. Room temperature is enough in summer. )

general idea

1. The utensils used to make fermented grains must be clean, especially without oil stains. They should be scalded with hot water and then wiped clean with paper towels.

2. The koji must be mixed after the glutinous rice is cooled. Otherwise, hot glutinous rice will kill botrytis cinerea. The result is either sour or smelly, or nothing happens.

It is best not to touch the glutinous rice directly with your hands. It is recommended to bring plastic gloves or a layer of plastic wrap.

4. The long white hair of wine indicates that the temperature is too high, but it can still be eaten; If the long colored hair indicates that the material is not clean, it is recommended not to eat it.

5. If it is found that the rice grains stick to very fine black particles in the air, if it is determined that it is not long hair, it is recommended to pick up the rice grains and throw them away as soon as possible. Rice grains with black spots tend to grow black hair.

6. Before mixing koji, the temperature of glutinous rice should not be higher than 30 degrees, preferably not too low, otherwise the brewed wine will be sour.

4 diet method

The edible method of fermented grains (fermented grains, fermented grains, rice wine, sweet wine, sweet rice wine, glutinous rice wine, glutinous rice wine and distiller's grains) refers to:

1, eaten directly: after opening the bottle, take it out with a spoon and eat it directly. It is delicate, smooth, mellow and sweet.

2, making fermented grains (fermented grains, sweet wine) drinks:

A, hot drink: take a proper amount of fermented grains, add a proper amount of boiling water, stir the sugar, and then let it cool before drinking.

B, cold drink: put the hot drink in the refrigerator and take it out to become a cold drink.

C. Juice mash (fermented wine, sweet wine): add lemon juice, orange juice, strawberry juice and other juices to the above drinks to make juice mash with unique flavor.

3, a full set of mash: the practice is to boil the mash with boiling water, beat the plumeria evenly, and sprinkle with raisins, peach kernels, peanuts, dried fruits, sugar and so on. Finally, add boiled milk.

The whole set of wine is yellow and white, the egg is soft, the milk is fragrant and the wine is fragrant, and all kinds of dried and fresh fruits are dotted in it, which is colorful, nutritious, sweet and slightly sour. No wonder people regard it as a hearty breakfast.

4. Fermented glutinous rice balls (fermented glutinous rice balls and sweet wine): select a proper amount of water to boil, and then add glutinous rice balls. When the dumplings surface, add appropriate amount of fermented grains and white sugar and cook for 3-5 minutes. You can make breakfast and snacks.

5, mash (wine, sweet wine) eggs: first boil the right amount of water and eggs (shelled), add the right amount of mash and sugar, and cook for 3-5 minutes. The mash can be used not only to cook eggs, but also to cook chicken, duck and fish.

6, as a seasoning:

1. As an ingredient of pickles and pickles, it can adjust the flavor.

B, making hot pot seasoning can increase mellow and sweet taste.

C, mix in steamed vegetables and cooked vegetables, adjust the fragrance and seasoning, and remove the fishy smell.

D, according to your creativity and needs, it can also be used as other seasonings to enrich your life.

5 suggestions for eating

Eating raw will irritate the stomach. You can eat it in boiling water, and the taste will soften.

Oral administration: warm stew or decoction. External use: tamping.

Fermented wine can be used to cook not only eggs, but also chickens, ducks, fish and pork. The effect of breast augmentation is the same, you don't have to stick to just eggs.

6 Brewing Beauty Editor 1, distiller's grains+warm water, adjust the frozen distiller's grains with appropriate warm water (be careful not to adjust them too thinly).

Fermented wine), and then apply it to your face for 8 minutes, but try it on your hand first. Allergy is not good!

2, sweet wine brewing, take a proper amount of sweet wine brewing, grind the rice inside, and then put down the compressed mask or mask paper for absorption, and a whitening mask is completed! It takes about 10- 15 minutes ~ remember to try!

3, sake emulsion The sake we usually drink when we go to eat Japanese food is also a good helper for whitening. After washing your face, just put sake on your face with a cotton pad, and then apply skin care products such as night cream after absorption.

The above materials are relatively cheap and easy to find. Sisters might as well have a try. But because these all contain alcohol, you should try them first and pay attention to avoid your eyes.

7 buy wine

There is wine in the supermarket.

Fermented wine can be bought in the supermarket and packed in a small glass jar.

There are old and new wines.

There are new and old wines. You can look at the rice in the glass jar when you buy it. There is a hole in the center of the rice. The big hole is old, and the small hole is newly fermented.

In addition, the rice brewed by old wine is also swollen, so the gap between rice grains is tight. On the contrary, the rice brewed by "young" wine does not look very big, and the gaps between rice grains are relatively loose. When choosing, it is best to use aged wine, because aged wine tastes stronger and more fragrant. People who eat fermented grains for the first time may not be used to the taste, so they can try to buy a new fermented grains first.

Eight benefits

One: for chills, blood stasis, hypogalactia, rheumatoid arthritis, backache, numbness of hands and feet, hot drinks are better;

Two: for neurasthenia, trance, depression and forgetfulness, it is better to add eggs to cook soup;

Three: Fermented wine can help blood circulation, promote metabolism, and have the effects of nourishing blood, caring skin, relaxing muscles and tendons, and strengthening life.

Four: maternal blood stasis, backache, numbness of hands and feet, tremor, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic injury, indigestion, anorexia, irritability, rapid heartbeat, physical weakness, yuan

Qi deficiency, nocturnal emission, irregular menstruation, hypogalactia and anemia all have great benefits and curative effects.

Five: Fermented wine can be directly opened for drinking or heated for drinking.

The principle of fermented grains as a good condiment is that it can dissolve trimethylamine, aminoaldehyde and other substances in other foods. After heating, these substances can escape with various volatile components in wine, so the odor in food can be removed.

Seven: Fermented wine can also esterify with the fat in meat to produce aromatic substances, which will enhance the flavor of dishes. These functions of removing fishy smell, smell and wine smell are all used in cooking.

Be widely adopted by people. Westerners like to eat Chinese food, which has a lot to do with the unique seasoning function of wine.