John Myers
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You can easily make rice vinegar yourself at home. You can use the finished vinegar for many different dishes.
Make your own rice vinegar: you need it
Rice vinegar is suitable for the preparation of various dishes. To make the Japanese vinegar yourself, you need the following ingredients and utensils:
- 500 grams of white rice
- 40 to 60 milliliters of mother vinegar or rice wine
- 1 liter of water
- A large and dark mason jar
- Two passing towels
- A rubber band
Rice vinegar: how to make it
When you have all the ingredients together, you can start making:
- First cook the 500 grams of rice and then put it, including the cooking water that is left, in a dark jar.
Now add 40 to 60 milliliters of the mother vinegar or rice wine. - Now fill a liter of water into the container. Make sure the water is filtered to prevent bacteria from getting into the glass.
- After that, the fermentation process begins. To do this, cover the jar with two cheesecloths and fasten them with a rubber band. The towels ensure that the rice vinegar can ferment well because it gets air.
- Then keep the glass in a dark and preferably warm place. To speed up the fermentation process, you should keep the jar at a temperature of around 18 to 27°C.
- It can now take up to six months for the rice vinegar to be ready. After a month you should check the vinegar for the first time. When the mixture smells and tastes like vinegar, the rice vinegar is ready. If this is not the case, you should continue to leave the mixture covered.
- After that, check in on the vinegar about every two weeks and check that it has the right flavor. Once this is the case, you can process the vinegar further.
- To do this, place a straining cloth on a container and filter the vinegar through the cloth. Then put the rice vinegar in the fridge for a few hours and then filter it again through a strainer.
- Then store the finished rice vinegar in the refrigerator. It can be kept there for about three months.
