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Small sardines or anchovies are mixed with salt and water and left to break down for about a month, stirred every day, until a brown liquid forms. The liquid is strained, mixed with roasted mustard and other spices and set in the sun for about two weeks. Made in 4 steps over 35 days – 55 days. The longest step, ferment, stirring every day, takes 25–40 days (Ghayoomi H 2024) and runs at 37–39 °C (Ghayoomi H 2024). Salt is 15–35 % (Kavian F 2022). Lactic acid bacteria and Streptococcus, Micrococcus and Bacillus do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourceThe amounts are from the Kavian and Nateghi laboratory recipe, which follows the traditional ingredients. Households in southern Iran use no fixed amounts, and traditional sauces vary widely in salt.
1 part by weight
Small sardines or anchovies · Whole, with the guts; Kavian and Nateghi also tested tuna[kavian2022]
Total time across the recorded steps: 35 days – 55 days
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What changes:Whole small fish go into salty water, which starts to draw water out of them
Step 1 of 4
Mix the fish with salt and water
Time
Not documented
Temperature
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Salt
15–35 %
Measured
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Output: fish in salty brine.
Flavour
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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
What makes this one different
Mahyawa ferments for only about a month, far shorter than the 6 to 18 months of Southeast Asian fish sauces, and it is finished with roasted mustard and spices and set in the sun. Its salt is often lower, which makes histamine a real problem.
SuraghNamed by Kavian and Nateghi as another name for mahyaveh.
Low-salt mahyavehLab version with 12.65 % salt brine held at 39 °C for 40 days; histamine stayed at 43.49 mg/kg.
Safety
Histamine is the main hazard. Codex caps fish sauce at 40 mg histamine per 100 g, and the EU at 400 mg/kg. Traditional mahyaveh samples have held up to 7916 mg/kg, and a lab batch reached 16 339 mg/kg by day 30. Salt at 7.4–17.1 % in traditional sauces is below the 200 g/L Codex expects; more salt and longer fermentation lowered microbe counts, including Enterobacteriaceae.
Hazards the sources name: Enterobacteriaceae (up to 4.4 log cfu/ml at 15 % salt and 30 days; fewer with more salt and time); Histamine-forming bacteria (3.00 → 4.58 log cfu/ml over 40 days).
Mahyawa is traditional in the southern provinces of Iran, including Fars and Hormozgan, and is made in households with no quality controls. Zarei and colleagues surveyed 66 local sauces in 2012, and laboratory studies since 2019 have tested salt, time and spice oils to cut histamine.
[hajimohammadi2019] Hajimohammadi B., Raeisi M., Eftekhar E., Mohebat R., Saffari A. 2019, Studying the effect of Allium sativum and Bunium persicum essential oils on histamine production in Mahyaveh, Journal of Food Safety, doi:10.1111/jfs.12590 (abstract)paper