Red rice vinegar
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Chinese red vinegar
Name Variations
- red vinegar
- Chinese red vinegar
- Chinese red rice vinegar
About Red rice vinegar
Wikipedia Article About Red rice vinegar on Wikipedia
Red rice vinegar is darker than white rice vinegar, and paler than black rice vinegar, with a distinctive red colour from Red yeast rice (红曲米), which is cultived with the mold Monascus purpureus. This vinegar has a distinctive flavour of its own due to the red mold.
In Chinese cookbooks, ½ tablespoon of Western white vinegar is equivalent in strength to 1 tablespoon Chinkiang vinegar. Many Chinese people who grow up with rice vinegars take time to grow accustomed to the strength of Western vinegars when they start to encounter them.
