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Vegetables from Mizoram and Manipur, northeast India

Tuaithur (Hmar fermented bamboo shoot)

Tuaithur is a wet, solid, sour fermented bamboo shoot made by the Hmar and Baite peoples of Mizoram and Manipur. It is eaten as a pickle or cooked into curry. Lactic acid bacteria and Bacillus species have been isolated from it.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Tuaithur itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Soibum, the closest documented vegetables ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Tuaithur.

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Recipe

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

Total time across the steps of Soibum: 3 months – 12 months

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What changes: Young bamboo shoots are stripped of their casings, sliced thinly and washed

Step 1 of 4 · steps of Soibum
Strip, slice and wash the shoots
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactobacillus plantarum
L. brevis
Pediococcus pentosaceus
Lactococcus lactis
Lactic acid bacteria
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

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

Tuaithur is a wet, solid, sour fermented bamboo shoot made by the Hmar and Baite peoples of Mizoram and Manipur. It is eaten as a pickle or cooked into curry. Lactic acid bacteria and Bacillus species have been isolated from it. Lactobacillus plantarum, L. brevis, Pediococcus pentosaceus and Lactococcus lactis does most of the fermenting.

What makes this one different

Tuaithur is kept wet, while its dried relative tuairoi, made by the Hrankhol and Baite, is a dried, solid, sour shoot.

Related ferments

History and sources

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

  1. [tamang2016] Tamang J.P., Watanabe K., Holzapfel W.H. 2016, Review, diversity of microorganisms in global fermented foods and beverages, Frontiers in Microbiology 7:377 (Table 3, citing Chakrabarty et al. 2014)paper
  2. [nongdam2015] Nongdam P. 2015, Traditional fermented bamboo shoot foods of North-East India and their characteristic natural microbial flora, 10th World Bamboo Congress, Korea (Table 1)paper