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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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.
Maari (Burkinabè fermented baobab seeds)
Maari is a Burkinabè baobab-seed condiment documented in producer studies. This is a non-instructional account, not a home recipe: sources vary, omit key process details and establish no validated safety control.
Thua nao (dried)
Northern Thai fermented soybean shaped while still soft into flat cakes and dried, so the bacterial soybean ferment becomes a durable, shelf-stable seasoning reserve.
Elevated risk
Ogiri-egusi (fermented melon-seed condiment)
A Nigerian condiment of cooked, fermented melon seeds, wrapped in leaves and held warm for several days, used to thicken and flavour soups and stews.
High risk
Nététou (Senegalese fermented néré)
Nététou is a Senegalese condiment of fermented African locust bean cotyledons. Casamance accounts describe staged cooking, dehulling and 48–72 hours of fermentation; these are not validated household safety limits.
Elevated risk
Kharoli
A strong Assamese condiment of mustard seed mixed with khar, an alkaline banana-ash filtrate, wrapped in leaves and fermented in bamboo over a fire or in a kitchen pot.
Soumbala (Burkinabè Parkia seed condiment)
A Burkina Faso alkaline fermentation of African locust bean seeds (Parkia biglobosa), used to season sauces and cooked grain dishes. Local process details vary, and the sources do not give a measured household batch.
High risk
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.
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
High risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
High risk
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.
High risk
Natto with a packaged starter
A two-cup soybean batch uses one Cultures for Health Natto Spores packet, a shallow perforated cover, and the supplier’s stated incubation and chilling sequence. The supplier’s instructions are not a validated home process.
Yanyanku
A traditional Beninese inoculum made from fermented roselle, cotton or baobab seeds, rich in bacterial spores, added to cooked African locust beans to speed up fermentation and soften them into sonru.
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.
High risk
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.
High risk
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.
High risk
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.