STEP 1/10
Prepare 4 cups of malt.
STEP 2/10
Place malt in a pillowcase and place in a large bowl. Add 2 green tea bags when making malt. It's brown rice green tea, so the color comes out yellow. I poured 18 cups of water. The water is lukewarm, so we can boil it better.
STEP 3/10
Rub the pillowcase together to allow the malt water to come out well and leave it for about 3 hours. Then just drain the water out of the stomach. Don't put malt in the bottom of the bowl. When you put regular sikhye in it, the color of sikhye becomes dark when this sediment is added.
STEP 4/10
It's a malt soup with only water from the stomach in a slow cooker. If you don't have a slow cooker, an electric rice cooker is also good.
STEP 5/10
Put in a bowl of cold rice. If the cold rice is too hard, heat it up in the microwave until it is lukewarm. You can cook new rice. Sikhye is very good to make when you have a lot of cold rice. Then stir with a spatula so that the rice grains are well blended. It's good to add 1 tablespoon of sugar to ferment faster.
STEP 6/10
Cover and let stand at LOW for 6-7 hours. The time is about six to seven hours, but what's certain is that when there are about ten grains of rice, it's well fermented.
STEP 7/10
I've been cooking other foods for a long time, so there are more grains of rice floating. Take out the rice grains and rinse them in cold water. And put it separately in a bowl and combine the soup and rice grains to make sikhye.
STEP 8/10
Place 1 cup sugar in sikhye broth, cover and let stand at high temperature until fluffy.
STEP 9/10
When it boils, turn off the heat and add half a cup of honey. If you add honey, it definitely tastes deeper than sugar. Add honey and let it cool.
STEP 10/10
When the sikhye cools down, add 1 tablespoon of green tea powder and stir well.