1. In cooking, Redmi is widely used, which can be used for cooking and dyeing, such as making Jiangsu famous dishes of cherry meat and Wuxi spareribs.

2, can be used for barbecue, sauce and marinated food, such as Guangdong barbecued pork and some brine production.

3. It can be used for enema coloring of red sausage and color matching when preparing sweet and sour, western juice and other compound flavors.

4, porridge, pasta, fermented bean curd, cakes, candy, candied fruit, etc. It is also often used to produce Redmi.

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I. Precautions for use:

1, Monascus rice is easy to get wet, once it gets wet, it will be infected by harmful microorganisms, and gradually mildew, agglomerate and produce insects, so it should be stored in a dry environment;

2. When using monascus rice, we should pay attention to that the dosage should not be too much, otherwise the taste will be bitter, but some sugar can be added to play the role of removing acid and relieving bitterness;

3. The production process of monascus rice includes soaking rice, steaming rice, air drying rice, inoculation, koji pushing, koji rubbing, rice spreading, water spraying and koji mixing, koji making and sun drying.

Generally, it takes about 4 days from rice planting to koji making. The appearance of red rice grains is purple, which can be air-dried or dried.

However, in the finished monascus rice, there are still some chromobacilli that continue to ferment, and finally the white heart left in monascus rice is red, so there is a folk saying that aged monascus rice is better than new monascus rice.

Second, the introduction of monascus powder:

Monascus powder is a natural red pigment, which is often used to cook barbecue or tofu milk in the south. Monascus is made by steaming glutinous rice and inoculating monascus seeds for fermentation. The fermented product is dark red glutinous rice, which is crushed into monascus powder. Coloring is natural, but easy to oxidize, so it is often used in the catering industry.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-monascus powder