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Soy and legumes from Japan — Fukui

Hamana miso (Fukui winter koji-moromi relish with eggplant)はまなみそ

chunky sweet-savoury winter relish eaten with rice, sake, mochi or cucumber. Made in 4 steps over 20 days. The longest step, combine and mature, takes 20 days (MAFF うちの郷土料理). Aspergillus oryzae does most of the fermenting.

Key numbers
Main step20 daysSourced[MAFF-KR-hamana]Combine and mature
Temperature70 °CSourced[MAFF-KR-hamana]Home method — amazake base
DocumentedSoy and legumes20 daysMore soy and legumesMore from Japan

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
steamed soybeans
roasted cracked wheat or naked barley
koji (rice koji sometimes)
salt brine
salted eggplant
shiso seeds
white sesame
ginger
chilli
Starter: koji/qu/mold-starter (soybean+wheat/barley 'mame-kōji'; rice koji or amazake)

Total time across the recorded steps: 20 days

Start
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shapes, not to countAspergillus oryzae

What changes: Koji mould grows on steamed soybeans with roasted wheat or barley

Step 1 of 4
Make bean koji
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
0
Unconfirmed
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Aspergillus oryzae
Moulds
Lactic acid bacteria

Output: bean koji.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

A. oryzae on steamed soybeans with roasted cracked wheat or naked barley [FUKUI-STD]

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

Safety

commercial standard: store ≤15 °C [FUKUI-STD]

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

Derived from Hamamatsu's hama-nattō; Yūki Hideyasu (Ieyasu's 2nd son) brought Hamamatsu food culture to Echizen after Sekigahara, and it became a local winter food; once served on New Year visits [MAFF-KR-hamana, JA-WIKI-はまなみそ].

  1. [MAFF-KR-hamana] MAFF うちの郷土料理, はまなみそ 福井県gov
  2. [FUKUI-STD] Fukui Prefecture, はまなみその認証基準. https://www.pref.fukui.lg.jp/doc/021500/kijun_d/fil/004.pdfweb
  3. [JA-WIKI-はまなみそ] Japanese Wikipedia, はまなみそwiki