Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade shio-koji (salted rice malt) and salt pork. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

I've been so fascinated by the power of kome koji (or "rice koji"; malted rice with koji mold). My passion for rice koji is growing bigger and bigger. With rice koji, I make my own miso, and just lately, I made my first makkoli (rice wine), and this time, I made Shio-koji. Salt Koji (Shio Koji) is Japanese seasoning made from rice koji, salt, and rice.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade shio-koji (salted rice malt) and salt pork using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Shio-Koji (Salted Rice Malt) and Salt Pork:

1. Prepare For the shio koji:
2. Prepare 400 grams Koji (freeze dried: available in Japanese supermarkets, or fresh koji)
3. Prepare 140 grams Salt (30% of the weight of the koji)
4. Get 400 ml + up to 200 ml Water
5. Make ready For the salt pork:
6. Make ready 1 as much (to taste) Pork belly (or pork shoulder or filet), block
7. Prepare 1 example: for 400 grams of pork use 2 to 3 tablespoons of shio-koji Shio-koji (about 10% of the weight of the meat)

Shio koji is a mixture of fermented sea salt and short-grain white rice. When Aspergillus oryzae is combined with salt and steamed rice, then left in a warm environment to For example, to tenderize and season meats and fish is most popular, to pickle vegetables, or make homemade salad dressings. Shio Koji (塩麹, 塩糀) is a mix of salt, water, and rice koji, and it's a natural seasoning used to marinate, tenderize, and enhance the umami, or richness (one of the five basic tastes), in foods. It's a live food that is rich in enzymes that break down the starches and proteins in food into sugars and.

Steps to make Homemade Shio-Koji (Salted Rice Malt) and Salt Pork:

1. Make the shio-koji: Put the shio-koji ingredients in a storage container and leave at room temperature. Mix it up once a day. In 7 to 10 days, when it becomes thick and porridge-like and the rice grains start falling apart, it's done. Store in the refrigerator.
2. The innoculated rice grains (the koji) will absorb water as it matures, so keep adding more water every 2 to 3 days so that the grains are always covered. Add up to 1.5 times the amount of rice in water.
3. Make the salt pork: Spread the shio-koji evenly over the surface of the pork. Wrap in paper towels, then wrap again in plastic wrap. Put the wrapped meat in a plastic bag and refrigerate.
4. After 2 to 3 days the meat will be cured and become a pretty pink color. Moisture will come out of the meat too, so change the paper towels. The meat is ready to eat in 3 days, up to 10 days.
5. This pork has been cured for 10 days and cut into 1 cm thick slices. Just pan fry in a frying pan without any added oil over medium-low heat. Don't wipe the shio-koji off; it burns easily though so pay attention!
6. This is sliced pork roast that's been marinated in shio-koji for 3 hours. I served it with user Orangeday's "Avocado + Sake Lee Dip"for a double punch of koji.
7. This is Whole Tomatoes Marinated in Shio-Koji. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/145365-marinated-tomato-with-shio-koji
8. Here are three more shio-koji recipes. Microwave-steamed Chicken Tenders; Sautéed Chicken; Bettara Daikon Radish. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/155914-daikon-bettarazuke-with-shio-koji - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/153718-chicken-sauteed-in-shio-koji-served-with-tartar-sauce - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/156482-salad-with-microwave-steamed-chicken-tenders-daikon-sprouts
9. With shio koji soboro: Yum Woon Sen with shio-koji soboro; Rice with shio-koji. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/156180-seasoned-rice-with-shio-koji-soboro - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/156277-sea-bream-hijiki-seaweed-seasoned-rice-for-baby-food
10. Here are more shio-koji recipes. Nagaimo marinated in wasabi and shio-koji; Avocado marinated in shio-koji. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/145384-avocado-pickled-in-shio-koji - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/145381-nagaimo-pickled-with-wasabi-and-shio-koji
11. Shio koji in hot pots: Try a spicy hot tofu hot potor a koji and sake lees hot pot. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/154295-shio-koji-sake-lees-hot-pot - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/155053-slightly-spicy-sesame-soy-milk-hot-pot
12. Using shio-kojji and amazake homemade seasoning mixture. Sweet and savory shio-koji,. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/145420-all-purpose-seasoning-with-shio-koji-%EF%BC%86-amazake-sweet-shio-koji
13. A lot of dried koji comes in 200 g packs, so you can just halve the water and salt if you are using one of those. However, dried koji absorbs a lot of water, so please keep adding more water when needed.

Shio Koji (塩麹, 塩糀) is a mix of salt, water, and rice koji, and it's a natural seasoning used to marinate, tenderize, and enhance the umami, or richness (one of the five basic tastes), in foods. It's a live food that is rich in enzymes that break down the starches and proteins in food into sugars and. Fermentation is an indispensable process in miso Grains such as rice, barley or soybeans are inoculated with koji kin. The mold then propagates and results One such example of this is shio koji, a mixture of malted rice (koji), salt (shio) and water. Shiokoji salted rice malt used in many Japanese marinade recipe is so easy to make even from scratch.

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