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Konka-iwashi is Ishikawa's sardine pickled first in salt and then in rice bran ("konka"). Headed and gutted sardines are layered in a barrel with a bran bed of salt, miso, soy sauce and chilli, pressed under a lid and weight, and left through the hot, humid summer for about half a year. Lactic fermentation in the bran gives a very salty, savoury fish.
Fully documentedFish and seafood6 months
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedThe MAFF and Kanazawa city descriptions give the ingredients but no amounts; each maker uses its own proportions.
What changes:Salt draws water and blood out of the headed, gutted sardines
Step 1 of 4
Head, gut and salt the sardines
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Salting holds back spoilage bacteria, firms the flesh and draws out blood.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
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Colour
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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
Konka-iwashi is Ishikawa's sardine pickled first in salt and then in rice bran ("konka"). Headed and gutted sardines are layered in a barrel with a bran bed of salt, miso, soy sauce and chilli, pressed under a lid and weight, and left through the hot, humid summer for about half a year. Lactic fermentation in the bran gives a very salty, savoury fish. Made in 4 steps over 6 months. The longest step, ferment through the Hokuriku summer, takes 6 months (MAFF Japan). Salt is 10–15 % (Kuda T 2001). Halophilic lactococci, the main bacteria in Ishikawa fish nukazuke does most of the fermenting.
Konka-iwashi is the sardine form of Hokuriku fish nukazuke. It is ripened for about half a year in a bran bed seasoned with miso, soy sauce and chilli; the Yamagata nuka-iwashi can be eaten from two weeks.
Salting first holds back spoilage bacteria in the flesh (MAFF). A study of 34 Ishikawa fish nukazuke products from 13 factories measured 10–15 % salt and 0.1 to 1.7 g/100 g lactic acid, and bacteria and acid differed between factories and fish (Kuda et al. 2001). Its abstract reports no pathogen or toxin tests. A later paper says histamine above 1,000 mg/kg occasionally builds up in salted fermented fish, made by halophilic lactococci, and some strains from fish nukazuke form it (Kuda et al. 2012). FDA says histamine cannot be removed by heat or freezing once it has formed, so grilling does not clear it.
Hazards the sources name: Histamine-forming Tetragenococcus halophilus, halophilic lactococci from fish nukazuke, a related salted fish in rice bran: 13 of 200 isolates made over 200 µg/ml histamine in lab broth, and in a challenge test 10 % salted sardine inoculated with one strain reached 2,800 µg/g in 30 days at 20 °C.
MAFF gives two stories. One credits Noto sake brewers who brought home sake lees that fishermen tried with bran; the other dates it to the Tenpō famine (Tenpō 4–10, the 1830s). It was a winter and lean-season protein and a cash product for fishing villages.
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.