Jiuniang

jiu niang, 酒酿, 甜酒釀

Jiuniang (simplified chinese: 酒酿; traditional chinese: 酒釀, also called láozāo (醪糟), jiāngmǐjiǔ (江米酒), or tiánbáijiǔ (甜白酒) in yunnan) is a sweet, soup- or pudding-like dish in chinese cuisine. it also known as sweet wine or sweet rice wine. it consists of a mixture of partially digested rice grains floating in a sweet saccharified liquid, with small amounts of alcohol (1.5–2%) and lactic acid (0.5%). it is made by fermenting glutinous rice with a starter called jiuqu (酒麴) containing rhizopus oryzae or aspergillus oryzae and often yeast and bacteria. it was first developed as a by-product of mijiu production and generally speaking is partially digested and fermented rice from a young rice...

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