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Red yeast rice or red rice koji is a bright reddish purple fermented rice, which acquires its color from being cultivated with the mold Monascus purpureus. Red yeast rice is what is referred to as a kōji in Japanese , meaning "grain or bean overgrown with a mold culture", a food preparation tradition going back to ca. 300 BC.
M. purpureus has been used for over a thousand years in oriental fermented foods, including red kōji-kin, red yeast rice, or ank-kak, rice wine, kaoliang brandy, and as the coloring agent for Peking duck.
Originating in Guangdong, it is eaten with rice, used as an ingredient for noodle dishes or in stir fries, and as a filling for cha siu bao or pineapple buns. Five-spice powder is the primary spice, honey or other sweeteners are used as a glaze, and the characteristic red color comes from the red yeast rice when made traditionally.
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Japanese authorities on Wednesday ordered drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical to recall three dietary supplement products containing red yeast rice, or beni koji, after they were linked to two deaths.
Oryza rufipogon, also known as wild rice and red rice. Red rice, also known as weedy rice, a low-yielding rice variety that persists as a weed in fields of better-quality rice. Thai Red Cargo rice, a non-glutinous long grain rice variety. Bhutanese red rice, a medium-grain rice grown in the Kingdom of Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas.
Fujian red wine chicken: 福建紅酒雞: 福建红酒鸡: hóngzāojī: a traditional dish of northern Fujian cuisine which is made from braising chicken in red yeast rice. Stir-fried tomato and scrambled eggs: 番茄炒蛋: 番茄炒蛋: fānqié chǎo dàn: a common dish in China.
Jiuqu, also simply known as qu, [a] is a type of dried fermentation starter used in the production of traditional Chinese alcoholic beverages. [2] The word jiuqu specifically refers to a type of yeast (曲; 麴; qū) used to make alcohol (酒; jiǔ) such as huangjiu (cereal wine), baijiu (distilled spirits) and jiuniang (alcoholic rice pudding).