Alias: Redmi, Red Rice Noodles, Redmi Juice, Qu Dan, Fuqu.
Introduction of monascus knowledge:
Monascus is monascus, also known as monascus, which is cultivated and fermented by monascus in rice. Monascus water is dyed with monascus rice and usually made into monascus water. The method is as follows: 50 grams of monascus rice is crushed with a stone mill or a pulverizer (it can also be used as a whole grain), then boiled in 1 liter of clean water, boiled with low fire for 5 minutes, and then filtered with gauze to remove residues to obtain monascus water; Monascus powder is prepared by pulverizing Monascus rice into Monascus powder.
Nutritional analysis of monascus;
1. Modern medical research reports believe that monascus can lower blood pressure and blood lipid, and monascus K can prevent the production of cholesterol;
2. Red rice skin is purple-red, heart-red, slightly sour and light in taste. It has a strong coloring ability to protein, so it is often used as an edible coloring pigment;
3. Compared with the chemically synthesized red pigment, Redmi has the advantages of non-toxicity and safety, and also has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
Monascus is suitable for people:
The general population can eat it.
The dietotherapy function of monascus;
Monascus is sweet and warm, and enters the liver, spleen and large intestine;
Has effects in promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, invigorating spleen, warming stomach, and promoting digestion.
It can be used for treating postpartum lochia, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, red and white dysentery, and traumatic injury. "Root-seeking Materia Medica" holds that "all worldly desires and diseases caused by qi should be supplemented".
Practice guide of monascus:
1. Monascus rice is widely used in cooking, which can be used for cooking and dyeing, such as making Jiangsu famous dishes cherry meat and Wuxi ribs;
2. It can be used to make barbecue, sauce and marinated food, such as Guangdong barbecued pork and some brine;
3. It can be used to color sausages and compound flavors such as sweet and sour and western-style fruit juice.
4. Monascus rice is often used to make porridge rice, pasta, fermented bean curd, cakes, sweets and preserves.