Chestnut Sikhye

밤식혜

Add chestnuts to sikhye (sweet rice drink) and you have the perfect autumn drink. Its signature sweetness plus nutty chestnut turns one glass into two. Missing that ice-cold sip straight from the fridge during the holidays.

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❝ Sikhye gets sweet because amylase enzymes in malt break down rice starch into sugar. Temperature matters: it's kept at 60 to 70°C for 4 to 5 hours, which is why at home people often just leave it on the rice cooker's keep-warm setting. ❞

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