dry it in a breathable tray
No more equipment than a bamboo steamer is needed. Follow this simple recipe and instructions, and you can make Brown Rice Koji right in your kitchen!
In this post, besides learning how to make Brown Rice Koji, you will also learn how to use it to make healthy & tasty brown rice amazake.
Ever since I learned how good koji is for your health, I always wanted to add it to my dishes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do this as I didn’t want to buy bag after bag of it.
I was optimistic to try and make my own koji rice, but just couldn’t. All of the recipes and instructions I looked for showed that special equipment is important to making koji. Also, I had to precisely monitor the temperature during the period I was making it.
Sadly, those reasons were enough to scare me away from making it for a long time.
As I always wanted to eat food that is good for my gut, koji kept calling me back.
At one point I decided that buying all the suggested equipment might be the best way to go. It’s so worth it to have homemade koji rice on hand, plus Brown Rice Koji is very expensive and hard to find.
Just before I decided to order the equipment, my thoughts went back a few thousand years into the past. The first koji rice wouldn’t have been made with all this modern equipment. That’s it, I should be able to make it like people used to without having to own so much equipment.…
