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Soy and legumes from Bali, Indonesia

Sere / seredele (Bali)

Sere or seredele is a Balinese soybean food that SoyInfo Center calls semifermented and usually classes as nonfermented. One SoyInfo history lists "perhaps sereh in Bali" among the relatives of natto, which would make it a Bacillus ferment, but no source read describes how it is made.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Sere / seredele itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Natto (itohiki natto, whole-bean sticky natto), the closest documented soy and legumes ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Sere / seredele.

Short entrySoy and legumes

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
soybeans

Total time across the steps of Natto (itohiki natto, whole-bean sticky natto): 2.3 days – 2.7 days

Start
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Close-up: water moving into a beanup to 20 °C

What changes: Water soaks into the beans until they swell and the two halves close up

Step 1 of 5 · steps of Natto (itohiki natto, whole-bean sticky natto)
Wash and soak
Time
16–20 h
Reported
Temperature
up to 20 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Bacillus subtilis
B. subtilis

In an Ibaraki trial, beans soaked under 8 h gave harder natto with thinner threads; at least 8 h was needed for a saleable product. Warm, over-long soaking lets other bacteria grow and sours the beans. Lactobacilli added to cooked beans did not harm the ferment in another trial, so the risk is acid formed during the soak. Output: soaked beans.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
beans swell until no gap is left between the two halves
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

washing removes soil microbes; in warm water lactic acid forms and later stops the natto bacteria

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

Sere or seredele is a Balinese soybean food that SoyInfo Center calls semifermented and usually classes as nonfermented. One SoyInfo history lists "perhaps sereh in Bali" among the relatives of natto, which would make it a Bacillus ferment, but no source read describes how it is made. Bacillus subtilis or B. natto does most of the fermenting.

What makes this one different

SoyInfo Center treats sere as semifermented and usually nonfermented, and discusses it under whole dry soybeans (Chapter 23), not with the fermented soyfoods.

Related ferments

History and sources

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

  1. [SIC-natto1] Shurtleff W., Aoyagi A., History of Natto and Its Relatives, SoyInfo Centerbook
  2. [SIC-spec] Shurtleff W., Aoyagi A., History of Specialty Fermented Soyfoods, SoyInfo Centerbook