Yongchun aged vinegar
Dark Fujian rice vinegar: glutinous rice and red Monascus koji make a red rice wine, liquid acetification turns it to vinegar, and it ages at least three years.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
All condiments16
Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings12
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments2
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods1
Garum and fish sauces1
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Recipes
Vinagre de Montilla-Moriles
Protected Andalusian wine vinegar made by acetifying certified Montilla-Moriles wine, dry or sweetened with Pedro Ximénez or Moscatel must, and often aged in oak by solera or añada.
High risk
Murrī
A dark, salty fermented condiment of the medieval Arabic kitchen, made from fermented barley and flour, which seasoned dishes where later cooks would use soy sauce, salt or sumac.
Mirin
Hon-mirin is a Japanese rice seasoning made by saccharifying glutinous rice with rice koji in shochu, then pressing and usually heating the mash.
Aceto Balsamico di Modena IGP
A dark, balanced vinegar from Emilia-Romagna made by combining cooked or concentrated grape must with wine vinegar, then acetifying and refining it in wood under a protected specification.
Zhenjiang Black Vinegar
Zhenjiang black vinegar is a Chinese glutinous-rice vinegar made by mixed-culture fermentation, solid-state acetification, roasted-rice extraction and ageing, giving a dark, savoury, mildly sweet condiment.
Tianjin Duliu mature vinegar
Tianjin grain vinegar of millet and sorghum made with daqu: liquid alcoholic fermentation, two-layer solid-state acetification, and at least three years of outdoor ageing of the grain mash.
Shoyu-koji
A Japanese kitchen condiment of rice koji matured in soy sauce until the grains turn soft and sweet. The same name also means the mould-grown soybean and wheat used to brew soy sauce.
Elevated risk
Koikuchi soy sauce
Japan's standard all-purpose soy sauce: soybeans and wheat grown over with koji mould, brined, fermented for months, pressed and usually heated into a reddish-brown, savoury liquid.
Soy sauce
Soy sauce is a salted liquid seasoning made by growing koji mould on soybeans and grain, maturing the mash in brine and pressing out the liquid. Japan's shoyu is the best-documented form.
High risk
Mushroom garum (koji garum)
Mushroom garum is a savoury, smoked sauce made by crushing mushrooms with salt and rice koji and letting the mixture brew for months, a modern use of the garum method without fish.
Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia
Protected Italian vinegar made only from cooked grape must, fermented and aged in a battery of wooden barrels for at least 12 years: sweet, sharp and syrupy.
Elevated risk
Unseasoned rice vinegar
Japanese komezu is a pale, unseasoned rice vinegar made through alcoholic and acetic fermentation; rice, water, koji and yeast shape its character.
Barley miso (mugi miso)
A Japanese soybean paste fermented with barley koji and salt, made mostly in Kyushu, Shikoku and western Japan. It is sweet, savoury and grainy.
Elevated risk
Gochujang with glutinous rice and meju powder
Korea’s sweet, savoury and fiery red paste of glutinous rice, barley-malt enzymes, fermented soybean meju powder and chilli powder, matured in earthenware.
Akazu (red sake-lees vinegar)
Japanese reddish-brown vinegar from sake lees matured about three years, turned to vinegar by acetic bacteria; the vinegar of Handa and Edomae sushi rice.