Sweet fermented grains is a kind of flavor snack processed from highland barley which is one of the cold and early maturing grains in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. There is a saying in the crowd: sweet fermented grains are sweet, old people and children swallow saliva. One bowl of two bowls can appetizer, three bowls of four bowls top meal.. It is mellow, cool and sweet. It smells like wine. Eating it in summer can refresh your mind and remove tiredness; eating it in winter can strengthen your body, warm your stomach and increase your appetite.
Step1:Soak highland barley for 1-2 hours. Highland barley rice can be purchased from Taobao shop, a specialty in Qinghai Province.
Step2:Put the soaked barley rice into the electric rice cooker. Put some water in it. Steam it like rice.
Step3:Put the steamed highland barley into a half bowl of cold boiled water and mix well. Lower the temperature to about 30 ℃. Too high a temperature will burn the koji. It won't work.
Step4:It doesn't burn your hands. Add in the sweet starter and mix well.
Step5:Put the mixed highland barley into the yoghurt machine for about 30 hours. Smell the sweet smell of the wine. You can enjoy it. No yoghurt machine. Put it on the heating. The temperature is about 18 degrees for 3-5 days. It can also be successful. Dig a dimple in the middle. Wait for the wine to come out of the dimple.
Step6:Eat it directly. It's fragrant and sweet. It's full of fragrance. It's very Q. The taste is similar to the mash, but the taste is very different.
Cooking tips:It can be eaten directly or heated like fermented glutinous rice. Add some sugar and raisins. The taste is better. But don't eat too much. You'll get drunk. There are skills in making delicious dishes.