Inspired by: Doujiang breakfast drink
- All year
Warm Five-Grain Soy Milk (Wu Gu Doujiang)
- Serves
- 4
- Portion
- 250 ml
- Time
- Soak overnight · 30 min
- Texture
- Liquid, light body
- Season
- All year
- Dosha
- Vata
- Pitta
- Kapha
Pitta–Vata
Ingredients
What you need
| Done | Ingredient | Household measure | Quantity (4 servings) | Café batch ×5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soy milk (unsweetened) | 2½ cups (or 60 g soaked soybeans blended) | 600 ml | 3000 ml | |
| Rice, white basmati (raw) | 1 tbsp | 15 g | 75 g | |
| Millet (whole) | 1 tbsp | 15 g | 75 g | |
| Oats, rolled / steel-cut | 2 tbsp | 15 g | 75 g | |
| Sesame seeds (til) | 1 tbsp black | 10 g | 50 g | |
| Moong, whole green | 1 tbsp, soaked | 15 g | 75 g | |
| Water | 1⅔ cups | 400 ml | 2000 ml | |
| Ginger, fresh | 1 slice | 3 g | 15 g | |
| Jaggery (gur) | 1 tbsp | 15 g | 75 g |
Method
How to cook it
Step 1: Soak the grains and mung overnight.
Step 2: Blend with water and sesame; simmer 15 minutes, stirring, with ginger.
Step 3: Add soy milk; heat through (soy milk must always be fully boiled if homemade); sweeten.
Step 4: Strain if a smooth drink is preferred.
Nutrition
Per serving, estimated
Low salt · 0 g per serving (low <1 g; moderate 1–1.8 g; high >1.8 g) · Salt guide
Where the energy comes from
Protein and carbohydrate × 4 kcal/g, fat × 9 kcal/g
Estimated from IFCT 2017 / USDA composition tables; not for clinical use.
How we made it Ayurvedic
- FromSweetened cold soy milk→Towarm grain soy milk
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