Jiuniang

Jiuniang is a sweet, soup- or pudding-like dish in Chinese cuisine. It is also known as sweet wine or sweet rice wine. It consists of a mixture of partially digested rice grains floating in a sweet saccharified liquid, with small amounts of alcohol (1.5–2%) and lactic acid (0.5%). It is made by fermenting glutinous rice with a starter called jiuqu containing Rhizopus oryzae or Aspergillus oryzae and often yeast and bacteria.

Jiuniang
A bowl of guihua jiuniang
TypeRice pudding
Place of originChina
Region or stateEast Asia
Main ingredientsGlutinous rice, fermentation starter (yeast and Aspergillus oryzae)
Jiuniang
Traditional Chinese酒釀
Simplified Chinese酒酿
Literal meaningwine brew
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese醪糟
Literal meaningalcohol with dregs
Glutinous rice wine
Chinese江米酒
Name in Yunnan
Chinese甜白酒
Literal meaningsweet white wine
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