The Easiest Way To Make Ama-koji (Sweet Rice Malt) and Amazake
The Easiest Way To Make Ama-koji (Sweet Rice Malt) and Amazake

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Turn the rice cooker onto the warming setting, and add in the rice malt. If you use refrigerated rice malt or if the pot is cold, the temperature will drop immediately, so warm it up first. All you need is, thin rice porridge and rice koji and rice cooker. Create a thin rice porridge as you usually do and pour in the rice malt.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook the easiest way to make ama-koji (sweet rice malt) and amazake using 2 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make The Easiest Way To Make Ama-koji (Sweet Rice Malt) and Amazake:
  1. Get 200 grams Rice malt
  2. Get 300 ml Hot water (140F/70C)

Spread the rice out on a baking dish. Depend on the purpose, different type of Koji fungus will be used to make Rice Koji. Left = Whitish Rice Koji, Right = Yellowish Rice Koji. Yellowish Koji will be making Miso.

Instructions to make The Easiest Way To Make Ama-koji (Sweet Rice Malt) and Amazake:
  1. Make sure to break up the rice malt if it's a solid. I usually break it up with my hands as-is without opening the package.
  2. Turn the rice cooker onto the warming setting, and add in the rice malt. If you use refrigerated rice malt or if the pot is cold, the temperature will drop immediately, so warm it up first.
  3. Add 150F/70C water, and mix well. It will immediately drop to 120F/50C, so close the lid and let it warm up for a bit, until it reaches above 60c.
  4. Making sure the temperature doesn't drop too much, stir it little by little while checking the temperature. It will take about 3-4 hours for the rice malt to sweeten.
  5. It depends on the rice cooker, but all I do is turn on the warm switch twice. Once it drops below 120F/50C, I heat it up for another 20-30 minutes and then turn it off again.
  6. Rice malt ferments at about 130°F (110-140°F) / 55°C(45-60°C). Keep turning the warming switch on and off to prevent cooling down.
  7. It will stop fermenting once it reaches above 160F/70C. It gets pretty hot even with the warm function, so don't cover it with a lid for too long.
  8. If it's a rice cooker where you can set the temperature, it might be suitable to choose the lowest heat setting. Or use a yogurt maker, which sets at 130F/55C.
  9. If you are making it in a thermos, use a 500 ml bottle. Pour hot water to warm it up before pouring the mixture in and make sure the heat doesn't drop when you change the water.
  10. Just like in Step 3, heat to 140F/60C, and mix well. Transfer to a bottle, let sit for about 8-12 hours, and you are done!
  11. If the temperature drops too far, then it won't be very sweet. But don't give up! If you transfer it to a pot and warm it over low heat, it'll become sweet again in a blink of an eye .
  12. Once it's done, dilute with water to make amazake (sweet sake). You can use it just like jam or yogurt, or use it to make healthy sweets .
  13. Freeze it in silicone cups or in ziplock bags, and make frozen treats . The dense rice malt will not freeze solid, so it's convenient!
  14. Mix with fruit, yogurt, or tofu, or make sherbet or ice cream. Add soy milk or regular milk and make a shake. It's delicious enough without adding any sugar.

Left = Whitish Rice Koji, Right = Yellowish Rice Koji. Yellowish Koji will be making Miso. All you need is, thin rice porridge and rice koji and rice cooker. Cooks then use inoculated rice or barley (called "koji"), now covered in a fluffy snowdrift, to set the enzymes to work. Depending on how it's harnessed, koji can bring out the sugars in rice to be.

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