How to Make Homemade Homemade Miso Paste

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade miso paste. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Homemade Miso Paste is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Homemade Miso Paste is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Today, I will be showing how to make Miso. Miso is one of the essential seasonings in Japanese cuisine as you already know. We make miso soup, dipping sauce. Homemade miso is a tasty all-purpose seasoning.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade miso paste using 8 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Miso Paste:

1. Make ready 500 g soy beans
2. Prepare 500 g Kouji
3. Prepare 250 g Salt (see note below on how to calculate the exact amount)
4. Make ready Tools:
5. Take 1 bucket or container that can hold 3 liters
6. Make ready 1 sturdy and clean plastic bag that is big enough to line the bucket
7. Get 1-1 1/2 kg weight for weighing dough miso
8. Get 1 inner lid that can fit inside the bucket - it will be used to put on top of miso to hold the weight

Why These Miso Soup Recipes Are So Good. Miso paste is a great source of proteins and nutrients. As a fermented food, it's also full of beneficial bacteria which contributes to good gut health. It can also help boost your immune system and help.

Steps to make Homemade Miso Paste:

1. You should wash soy beans, and soak soy beans about 14~24 hours. Use 4 times the amount of soy beans for the soaking water.
2. After soaking, soybeans look like this.
3. Boil the soybeans in plenty of water for about 4 hours.
4. When you can easily mash a soy bean between two fingers, it's done! Next you should mash soybeans very well.
5. The soybeans look like this after mashing.
6. After mashing, weigh the miso so you can calculate exactly how much salt to use (next step)
7. Add the weight of soybeans by the weight of koji (here it's 500 g). Multiply that number by 0.12, then divide by 0.88. - - Salt = (weight of mashed soybeans + weight of koji) x 0.12 / 0.88
8. Set aside 10% of the salt for sprinkling on top later on. The remaining 90% will be mixed with the koji in the next step.
9. Mix the koji and salt well. Then mix in the mashed soybeans very well.
10. Make miso-dama - it means miso ball! Make miso balls by tightly squeezing the mix in the palms of your hand. They should be firm and not fall apart.
11. Put the balls in a big container lined with a clean plastic bag, and "punch" your miso down! You need to punch out the air, so make sure it's smashed into the container very well with now air pockets.
12. Make the top of the miso level.
13. Sprinkle with a little salt.
14. Wrap an "inner lid" with plastic wrap and put on top of the miso paste. I used a round plastic piece the same size as my container.
15. Put a heavy weight on top.
16. Wrap up and close the plastic liner bag so it's inside the container. Cover the container with a lid and say good night! See you next year! It takes one year to finish fermenting, but you should check your miso after summer. If your miso smells bad, you should remove any mold and mix up miso! Smash it back down again, put the weight on and finish fermenting.

As a fermented food, it's also full of beneficial bacteria which contributes to good gut health. It can also help boost your immune system and help. Make your very own Japanese miso soup from scratch. Homemade Miso Soup. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Knead and mix soybean paste with【koji + salt】until miso becomes as soft as an earlobe.

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