Are you surprised or
intrigued to read today’s recipe name? Even I was amazed when I got a request
from one of my readers, for germinated green gram wine. It was the first
time I was hearing about green gram wine and never in my wildest thoughts had I
ever imagined of making wine with green gram / cherupayar. But he assured me
that someone in Kerala makes the wine from germinated green gram and whoever had the wine said it
is one of the tastiest. He requested me to ferret out the recipe from some
source. The idea circled in my head
for several days and I searched all my recipe collection and over the internet
too without any luck. This forced me to put on my thinking cap to
develop my own recipe and experiment. So I made a small quantity of wine
without germinating the green gram / cherupayar and guess what, it was a huge
hit!!! This wine is one of my best experiments and whoever has tasted it
so far have told me it is one of the best and tastiest wine! I will
definitely try with germinated green gram next to see the difference
in taste.... If you love homemade wine do try this recipe and let me know the
result; I am sure you will love it :) :)
Cherupayar Wine / Green Gram
Wine / Mung Bean Wine
Ingredients:
Cherupayar /Green gram / Whole
Mung Bean – 250 gms (1 cup)
Sugar- 625 gms
Lime juice and zest of 1 lime
Yeast- ¼ tsp
Raisins- 50 gm, chopped
Water- 1 ½ liters
Method:
- Wash green gram and keep it in a strainer to drain it completely for at least 1 hour.
- Boil water and sugar and keep it aside. Add chopped raisins, lemon zest and lemon juice to the hot water and mix well.
- When the mixture becomes lukewarm, add washed and well drained green gram / cherupayar and stir well, sprinkle yeast; mix well and transfer to a sterilized bharani / bottle.
- Tie the bottle with a clean cloth or close with lid little loose.
- Stir this mixture every day for 20 days.
- After 20 days, strain the mixture through a cheese/ muslin cloth in to a clean dry bottle.
- Keep this again for 7 days untouched. After 7 days strain the wine again, pour it in to clean dry bottles and use.