Korean Sikhye and Recipe, 5 Ingredients

Korean Sikhye and Recipe, 5 Ingredients

Sikhye, a traditional Korean drink, is a drink that I enjoyed for dessert after eating food after the holidays or parties.
When you eat sik hye, you eat a lot because of its sweet and cool taste.
We will tell you everything from how to make traditional sik hye to history.

Index

• What is Sikhye?
• When was Sikhye made?
• Sikhye Ingredients
• How to make Sikhye [ Sikhye Recipe ]

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What is Sikhye?

It refers to a drink with grains of rice floating on top of a sweet and cool liquid.
Sik hye is a beverage that is often eaten as a dessert after eating rice.
And when I want to have a cool and sweet drink, I look for Sik hye a lot.

Sik hye does not use ingredients such as artificial sweeteners.
Sik hye made in the traditional Korean way is made with malt powder, water, sugar, rice, and ginger.
Comparing a drink with artificial sweeteners a drink made with natural ingredients, which one is healthier?

So will the taste go down?
Not at all.
Sweetness is made from malt powder, and rice is added to ferment it, which enhances the texture of the drink.

When was Sikhye made?

The history of Sik hye is written in the literature of King Yeongjo in the 1700s as [The taste of Sik hye in Songdo is beautiful].
At this time, there is also a method of making Sik hye using the heat of the ondol.
Sik hye is one of the drinks with a long history, and you can see the wisdom of Korean ancestors.

Sikhye Ingredients

1 bowl of rice
4L of water
2 roots of ginger
sugar in moderation
Malt Powder 500g

How to make Sikhye [ Sikhye Recipe ]

A. For sik hye, malt is poured over raw rice.
Malt is used to enhance the sweetness.
B. Add chopped ginger to the mixed malt and rice and pour water.
C. Use an electric rice cooker or pot to ferment by weakly heating at 65 degrees for about 5 hours.
D. Remove the rice using a sieve and rinse with cold water.
E. Add sugar to the Sik hye water to further increase the sweetness.
F. Adding the rinsed rice to Sik hye water completes the Sik hye beverage we eat.