🇰🇷 How to Make Sikhye

Craving Sikhye? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Sikhye at home, in about 4 hr, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 100g cooked short-grain rice
• 60g malt barley powder
• 1.5L water
• 120g sugar
• pine nuts to float on top

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Soak the malt powder in the water for an hour, then strain it through a cloth and let the cloudy liquid settle.
2. Pour off the clear liquid at the top and leave the starchy sludge behind — that sludge is what turns the drink gritty.
3. Warm the clear malt water to 60°C, stir in the cooked rice, and hold it there for 4 hours until the grains float.
4. Scoop out the floating rice and rinse it in cold water. Boil the liquid with the sugar, then chill it hard.
5. Serve very cold with a spoonful of the reserved rice and a few pine nuts on top.