Tungrymbai
A Khasi and Jaintia fermented soybean food from Meghalaya: cooked beans ferment naturally in leaf-lined baskets above a fire, giving a sticky, pungent, savoury mass.
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All legumes and seeds31
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments21
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments5
Adjacent and excluded2
Garum and fish sauces2
Smoked salted and dried foods1
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Rice-koji soybean miso
A traditional Japanese fermented paste made by mixing cooked soybeans with rice koji and salt. This guide details the ratio, the long enzymatic breakdown, and the months-long maturation required for depth.
Sieng
A Cambodian fermented soybean food in which cooked beans ferment into a sticky alkaline mass, then are preserved and matured in salt brine, sometimes sweetened with sugar.
Shiokara natto (hama natto, tera natto)
A Japanese family of salted, dark, non-stringy natto made from whole soybeans, roasted grain and salt water, with names such as hama-natto, Daitokuji-natto and tera-natto. Not the sticky Bacillus natto.
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Cooked-bean koji garum
Cooked-bean koji garum is a dark liquid seasoning made from soft-cooked beans, rice koji, salt and water. A long warm hold lets koji enzymes break down the mash.
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Natto
Natto is a Japanese fermented soybean food with a sticky coat and long strings, made by steaming soybeans and inoculating them with a natto Bacillus starter, then keeping them warm.
Mapi' (Hidatsa sunflower-seed balls)
Mapi' are Hidatsa sunflower-seed balls formed from parched meal. This modern, untested kitchen adaptation uses toasted kernels and keeps the historical method distinct.
Fresh Firm Tofu
Fresh firm tofu is made by coagulating cooked soybean milk, then draining and pressing the curds into a sliceable block. This version follows a published nigari method and traces tofu’s varied, contested history.
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Yellow-pea koji garum
Yellow-pea koji garum is a dark liquid seasoning made by holding cooked split peas with rice koji, salt and water while the koji enzymes break down the mash.
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Black oncom from defatted peanut cake
Black oncom is a mould-fermented cake made from defatted peanut cake, pressed to about 2 cm, steamed and then incubated for a day at ambient temperature.
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Tauco, Indonesian two-stage soybean paste
An Indonesian savoury soybean paste built in two stages: cooked beans and roasted flour carry a mould fermentation, then mature in salt brine into a thick, salty seasoning.
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Ugba, Nigerian fermented African oil bean
Sliced cotyledons of the African oil bean, boiled soft and fermented in banana-leaf parcels into the sharply savoury Nigerian condiment and salad ingredient known as ukpaka.
Bacterial-type douchi
A Chinese fermented soybean condiment in which Bacillus-led bacteria, not moulds, drive the fermentation. Documented in Zunyi, Guizhou, and kept separate from mould-led douchi.
Peruyaan
An Apatani fermented soybean food from the Ziro Valley of Arunachal Pradesh: cooked beans are wrapped in ginger leaves and left near the hearth until sticky and savoury, then eaten with rice or as a chilli-seasoned chutney.
Pe poke
A Myanmar soybean ferment in which cooked beans turn sticky through alkaline bacterial fermentation, then are eaten fresh or seasoned, flattened and sun-dried into savoury wafers.
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Natto with half-pack starter in a yogurt maker
Pressure-steamed soybeans are mixed with half a retail natto pack, held in a yogurt maker, and chilled; the creator reports a yield of about 300 g.
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Natto with frozen retail starter
This video account makes natto from soybeans using frozen retail natto as a starter and a yogurt maker. It reports one home batch but leaves the starter mass, soak-water temperature, cooling controls and storage after chilling unstated.
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Natto with a documented Bacillus subtilis starter
Steamed soybeans fermented by a named strain of Bacillus subtilis into Japan’s sticky, strongly savoury whole-bean food, bound by the thread-forming polymer the bacteria secrete.
Mucor-type douchi
A Chinese fermented soybean condiment from Chongqing and Sichuan, made by growing Mucor-type mould on cooked beans, then salting and maturing them into dark, savoury, soft beans with a concentrated aroma.
Mame-koji
Japanese soybean koji: steamed soybeans, loose or formed into balls, grown over with Aspergillus mould to make the enzymes for mame-miso, tamari and regional soybean condiments.
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Natto with retail starter and an oven-light incubator
A 250 g soybean batch uses one of nine retail-natto portions and a towel-wrapped oven-light setup; the thermometer location and starter-pack mass are unknown.
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Natto with liquid starter in a foam box
Liquid natto starter is mixed through pressure-cooked soybeans and incubated in a warmed foam box; the creator gives no incubation temperature.
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Ogiri-okpei from Prosopis seeds
Ogiri-okpei is a Nigerian condiment of cooked Prosopis africana cotyledons left to ferment spontaneously in leaf-lined containers, then ground and dried.
Bekang / Bekang-um
A Mizo alkaline soybean ferment made by holding cooked beans in leaf-lined containers, sometimes with wood ash, until they turn sticky, soft and pungent; eaten fresh or used as a seasoning.
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Axone
Soybeans boiled soft and fermented in a leaf-lined basket by the hearth, then in many Naga households pounded, wrapped in leaves and fermented again into a dark, pungent seasoning paste.
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Finnish pea soup
Finnish pea soup simmers dried peas with palvikinkku or a vegetable alternative, then is served with mustard and chopped onion.
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Red oncom from okara with Neurospora starter
Red oncom is a West Javanese cake fermented from pressed soy pulp with a Neurospora starter, a little tapioca starch and vinegar. It is a different food from black oncom, made on another substrate with another mould.
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Low-salt Aspergillus douchi
This controlled study protocol makes Aspergillus koji from soybeans and then ferments it with 4% salt. It uses a 150 g jar batch and a defined moisture target; the research method is not a validated home process.
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Black soybean thua nao with Bacillus subtilis
Black soybeans cooked, inoculated with a named Bacillus subtilis culture and fermented warm and humid into northern Thailand's thua nao, then optionally dried into thin discs.
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Rice-koji doenjang from a controlled study
A Korean fermented soybean paste built on rice koji instead of traditional meju blocks, matured warm for thirty days with salt holding the water activity down.
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Kinema with firewood ash
A sticky fermented soybean food of the eastern Himalaya, made here with a measured addition of firewood ash as an alkaline aid to the bacteria that drive it.