Sunday 17 May 2009

Homemade Foochow Rice Wine


Glad that my mum came over for a visit. Weather wise not that great, as it has been really windy and wet this week....unpredictable weather really. Never the less, we still manage to do little of this and that.
On Saturday, we went to farmer's market to buy some local produce. We bought some early carrots, which we then steamed and they tasted so tender and sweet.
Today on the way back from town, we stopped by the local strawberry farm just to check if PYO (pick your own) fruits season has even started......well have to wait for another 2 weeks. However they've early strawberries that they harvested from their farm for sales. Not to bad for 2.3kgs of strawberries for 6 quids. Red, plump, juicy and succulent strawberries , one can only imagine......
eaten with cream............hmnnnnnnn.......


One of the specialities of Foochow dish is chicken cook in homemade rice wine. This dish is commonly served to women in their confinement. It deem to help blood circulation and also heat up the body. I've yearning[note: I by no means in confiment, hehehehe] to have this dish for a year now since I don't even know how to make the wine in the first place. Having my mum here would be an excellent opportunity to learn how to make it. Great!

Cooked glutinous rice

Blended wine biscuit and red rice

Homemade Foochow Rice Wine
Ingredients
  • 1 kilos of glutinous rice
  • water (cover the rice around 1.5inches from rice surface)
  • 1 wine biscuit + 250gm red rice (blend them together)
  • 1 big glass container that can easily fit 3 litres of volume
  1. Cook the glutinous rice in rice cooker. Once cooked, set aside and let it cool.
  2. Once cool, mix the glutinous rice with blended wine biscuit, red rice and scoop it into the glass container.
  3. Seal the container and set aside.
  4. Within 24-48hrs, the fermentation process will begin. Use a clean and dry chopstick to stir and mix after 48hrs. Then after every 2-3days check and stir again.
  5. Then after 30days, the wine is ready for use in cooking.
  6. Please note that the whole process require clean and dry utensils, else it may turn the wine bad and has to be thrown away.
Well keep my finger crossed, I will have rice wine chicken during midsummer :-)






And here May's bloom from my garden, tall lupins and mixed color ranunculus.

5 comments:

fen said...

Beautiful blooms!
Ang Chew...authentically made by the pro! Wow! How long do you have to wait before you can use it?

Say HI to Ah Mu. :)

Christine Toh said...

Hi Fen,
Yes indeed lovely blooms ;-).
Yes ang chew will be ready around 20-30days depending on the fermentation process.
Ah Mu says hi to you too.

Unknown said...

Do you know how to make ginger wine? Those that can be use to cook or drink?One more is ginger plus honey or kat chai for drinking.I just bought some wine for my daughter's confiment.But I will try ur recipe later.By the way, where are you from?( do u mind )I'm Malaysian from K.L.
Thanks in advance & be happy always.

Christine Toh said...

Hi Ancella,

Apology for not replying earlier as I'm not aware.
The kat chai(kumquat) with honey drink is good for sore throat or the the onset of cold.
I'm original from Sitiawan and now residing in UK.

Hope you enjoy my food blog.

Anonymous said...

Hi Christine, nice sharing!
May I know where did you get the rice biscuit and red rice please?
Siaw