Origin Ishikawa, Japan
Container Plastic tube
Usage As a sugar substitute in cooking, organic rice syrup can be used to make sweets or replace mirin, adding a sweet touch to your savory dishes. Its liquid texture, similar to honey, allows you to spread it on bread and enjoy it neat, or to sweeten tea or other hot drinks. You can also make teriyaki sauces by mixing the syrup with soy sauce. Rice syrup provides a nice glaze for your meat and fish, and pairs perfectly with lotus roots, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin. It's the ideal ingredient for making sweet and savory recipes, or hot drinks by adding a little citrus juice and hot water!

Sugars & syrups

Organic rice syrup 200g

Organic rice syrup 200g
12,40 €
12,40 €

Ref. ISHIKAWA01

In stock

Description
This rice syrup, called Komeame, is a natural sweetener made with local organic rice and barley, without added sugar or preservatives. It is produced in Kanazawa by saccharifying rice starch with barley malt enzymes. This rice syrup contains maltose, which is sweeter than sucrose. This food replaced sugar when it was very rare in Japan. Even today, it is a popular ingredient for making tsukudani, stews, and certain Japanese sweets.
Flavor

A sweet and mild flavor.

Conservation

Store at room temperature, away from sunlight, heat, and humidity. Once opened, keep refrigerated and consume promptly.

Ingredients & Allergens
Organic rice (97%), organic barley (3%)

Allergenes : Barley
Nutritional Values

View full details
Origin Ishikawa, Japan
Container Plastic tube
Usage As a sugar substitute in cooking, organic rice syrup can be used to make sweets or replace mirin, adding a sweet touch to your savory dishes. Its liquid texture, similar to honey, allows you to spread it on bread and enjoy it neat, or to sweeten tea or other hot drinks. You can also make teriyaki sauces by mixing the syrup with soy sauce. Rice syrup provides a nice glaze for your meat and fish, and pairs perfectly with lotus roots, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin. It's the ideal ingredient for making sweet and savory recipes, or hot drinks by adding a little citrus juice and hot water!
Kanazawa Daichi
The producer

Kanazawa Daichi

Kanazawa Daichi is an organic farm, located in the suburbs of Kanazawa and Oku-Noto, in Ishikawa Prefecture. It practices environmentally friendly agriculture. It mainly grows rice, barley, wheat, buckwheat, vegetables, and fruits organically, using abandoned farmland. The processed products it sells are all made with food grown locally on the farm, which promotes both the close relationships with producers and their work.