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Type | Rice pudding |
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Place of origin | China |
Region or state | East Asia |
Main ingredients | Glutinous rice, fermentation starter (yeast and Aspergillus oryzae) |
Jiuniang | |||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 酒釀 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 酒酿 | ||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | wine brew | ||||||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
Chinese | 醪糟 | ||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | alcohol with dregs | ||||||||||||||
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Glutinous rice wine | |||||||||||||||
Chinese | 江米酒 | ||||||||||||||
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Name in Yunnan | |||||||||||||||
Chinese | 甜白酒 | ||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | sweet white wine | ||||||||||||||
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Jiuniang is a sweet, soup- or pudding-like dish in Chinese cuisine. It is also known as sweet wine or sweet rice wine.[1] 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.