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Chinese fermented chilli mash (la jiao jiang base; erjingtiao)辣椒酱
Fresh red chillies are mixed with salt, packed into jars and left sealed for weeks while lactic bacteria and yeasts sour the mash. Chinese chilli bean paste is made from such a mash, and Hunan chilli sauce from salted chillies. Traditional high-salt chilli products such as chilli bean paste hold 15–22 % salt, and recent studies test far less.
Fully documentedSauces and condiments15 days – 45 days
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceThe salt level is the one a 2026 study gives for traditional high-salt chilli products; makers do not publish fixed recipes.
Fresh red chillies
Mumashan erjingtiao in the Sichuan study, rinsed and hot-air-dried at 60 °C before mashing[dai2026]
Salt15–22 g per 100 g
The level given for traditional high-salt chilli products such as chilli bean paste; the studies test 4–12 % salt[dai2026]
Starter
spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 15 days – 45 days
Start
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What changes:Fresh red chillies are rinsed with water
Step 1 of 4
Wash the chillies
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Pichia
Zygosaccharomyces
Lactic acid bacteria
Output: washed chillies.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
bright red
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Fresh red chillies are mixed with salt, packed into jars and left sealed for weeks while lactic bacteria and yeasts sour the mash. Chinese chilli bean paste is made from such a mash, and Hunan chilli sauce from salted chillies. Traditional high-salt chilli products such as chilli bean paste hold 15–22 % salt, and recent studies test far less. Made in 4 steps over 15 days – 45 days. The longest step, ferment, takes 15–45 days (Dai L 2026) and runs at 32–40 °C (Dai L 2026). Salt is 15–22 % (Dai L 2026). Lactic acid bacteria and Bacillus do most of the fermenting.
Traditional Chinese chilli products such as chilli bean paste hold 15–22 % salt, far saltier than Louisiana barrel mash. Paojiao keeps the chillies whole in a liquid brine.
Industrial salted chillies for Hunan chilli sauceFresh chillies are salted in tanks in 20 % brine for two months, then desalted and ground into the sauce.
Low-salt mash4–12 % salt with the water activity held at 0.87–0.91; sourer (at 4 % salt) and steadier in colour than the 15 % control in one study.
Safety
Salt selectively inhibits spoilage and pathogenic bacteria. In the Sichuan low-salt trial Klebsiella rose to up to 10 % relative abundance and Enterobacter also increased, so the authors name clean raw chillies as a critical control point when the salt is cut.
Hazards the sources name: Klebsiella (up to about 10 % relative abundance in the low-salt trial) and Enterobacter (also increased).
National Geographic reports that by 1765 local historians recorded chillies used to flavour sauces, vinegar, savoury oils and preserved vegetables in Hunan.