Sweet Wine Rice

Name: Sweet Wine Rice (Jau Long)
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2 cups cold water; 1 wine pill, crushed; 4 or 5 cups water, for steaming; 1 teaspoon flour; 2 cups glutinous rice

Jau Long

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Chinese Banquet Cookbook

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1985

About

This is a well-known food preparation in Shanghai, where it is eaten as a snack and also used to prepare Shanghai’s equally famous sweet Wine Rice Soup. The sweetness of the rice is due to its fermentation. Only when a soup is made is more sweetness added, in the form of sugar.

Ingredients

2 cups glutinous rice
2 cups cold water
4 or 5 cups

Asia
China
Shanghai
Dessert
Snack
Vegan

Method

Wash rice 2 or 3 times; drain off excess water thoroughly. Place rice in an 8-inch cake pan, add 2 cups cold water, and place the cake pan in a steamer. Add