Easy Homemade Brown Rice Amazake with a Yogurt Maker

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   Prepare cooked brown rice.

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   This is 3 rice cooker cups (540 ml) of brown rice (measured before cooking) with 1/3 a rice cooker cup (60 ml; measured before cooking) of adzuki beans, cooked the usual way.

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   Put the cooked brown rice and water in a sauce pan.

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   Simmer for about 10 minutes, and it will become like rice porridge.

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   Turn the heat off and let it cool down to 60C.

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   Break the rice malt up with your hands and add it to the pan.

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   Mix well to blend with the rice porridge.

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   This is how it looks with the rice malt mixed into the porridge.

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   Transfer this to the yogurt maker, and keep it warm (If you can set the temperature, set it to 50 to 60C).

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    Taste it 12 hours later.

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    If it's really sweet, switch the yogurt maker off.

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    Mix the porridge up 2-3 times during these 12 hours.

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    The rice grains and beans will still be intact.

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    If you don't like it to be grainy, puree it in a blender.

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    The result is a thick, creamy amazake cream that has a subtle adzuki bean taste.

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    You can use this amazake cream as a sweetener in desserts and drinks a little at a time, so transfer it to a storage container and freeze immediately.

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    Even if you freeze the amazake, it won't solidify due to the high sugar content.

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    You can scoop out as much as you want to use in cooking.

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    This is the koji (rice malt) I used.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.