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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.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Recipes
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Moroccan kaddid
Moroccan kaddid is a traditional salted, dried meat. The measured batch here is from a 2023 Tunisian experiment and is included only as a non-instructional comparison.
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Myeolchi jeot
Salted anchovies mature in a covered jar with brine. The fish can be seasoned for a meal, while the expressed liquid seasons kimchi and other dishes.
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Genoa-style salami, red-wine method
Pork, beef and back fat ferment with a named starter, cure and red wine before the sausages dry in casings. This contemporary formula uses no wood-smoke stage.
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Som-fak
Som-fak is a Thai fermented freshwater-fish cake. JIRCAS records its ingredients, proportions, wrapping and 3–5-day fermentation, but does not validate a safe household process or endpoint.
Tahitian coconut bread
Sweet dough with grated coconut is divided into ten logs, wrapped in foil and baked slowly in this Polynesian Cultural Center version demonstrated by Gina Pasi.
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Shio Kombu (Seasoned Salted Kelp)
Japanese kelp simmered in soy sauce and seasonings, sometimes dried and salted, eaten with rice or used as an umami seasoning.
Galgal pickle
Ripe Himalayan galgal is boiled, sun-dried and cooked with mustard oil, spices and jaggery before a further rest in a ceramic jar.
Meskhetian mulberry tklapi
A reported Khizabavra household method cooks mulberry juice with wheat flour into a thin porridge before drying it on cloth; batch measures and a measured endpoint are absent.
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Mulberry tklapi
Georgian field notes describe mulberry tklapi with wheat flour but omit how the paste is cooked. FDA warns raw flour can carry harmful bacteria; this incomplete account is documentary, not a home recipe.
Regag (Emirati paper-thin griddle bread)
Regag is a thin Emirati wheat bread cooked on an ungreased pan. This measured home method uses a soft dough that rests covered, then gets spread thin with a palette knife or bench scraper.
Sato dong
Thai pickle of stink bean seeds, Parkia speciosa, with the testa left on, held in a 10 percent salt brine in a glass jar in shade. JIRCAS records a three to four day ferment and a separate seven day flavour note.
Panrkhash
Panrkhash is an Armenian bread-and-cheese dish associated with Gyumri and Shirak. One published oven-baked version layers lavash and string cheese with butter-sautéed onion and hot water; regional methods vary.
Pansuh (Iban bamboo cooking)
Manuk pansuh is Iban chicken cooked slowly inside a fresh bamboo tube with aromatics and leafy greens. The bamboo holds the food and shapes the steamy, fragrant cooking environment; recipes vary by household and locality.
Horseradish mayonnaise
Prepared horseradish and lemon sharpen finished mayonnaise into a fresh accompaniment for roast meat or fish; the archived ratio has not been tested.
Olive-oil and garlic mayonnaise
An untested 265 g garlic mayonnaise made by whisking pasteurised yolk with vinegar, water and Dijon, then slowly emulsifying neutral oil with mild extra-virgin olive oil.
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Sunflower-oil mayonnaise with extra mustard
An untested mayonnaise variation made with refined sunflower oil and more Dijon mustard than a neutral base.
Lam phueak dong
Thai pickle of young taro leaf stalks, salted, kneaded and held in rice-washing water in an earthen jar at room temperature. JIRCAS records it as a home-level product with no validated endpoint.
Fruit preserved in honey
Fruit and some other foods were placed in honey in ancient Mediterranean kitchens. The honey's concentrated sugar does the preserving, and wet ingredients weaken it.
Mango leather
Sieved mango purée with honey and warm spices, spread a quarter inch thick and dried at 140 °F (60 °C) for about 10 hours into a flexible fruit sheet.
Miang
Northern Thai fermented tea leaf: Assam tea leaves tied in bundles, steamed, packed in a lined tank and held under weight for three to four months. Eaten after meals.
Laphet (lahpet)
Laphet is Myanmar’s fermented tea-leaf food, associated with ceremony and hospitality. This entry documents cultural context and regional production accounts; it is not a household fermentation recipe.
Ise takuan
Regional takuan from Ise City, Mie, made with Misono daikon dried on a rack, then matured in a weighted barrel of rice bran and salt for months to years.
Inziangsang
Inziangsang is a Naga fermented food of mustard leaves from Nagaland and Manipur. Crushed, soaked and squeezed leaves ferment for 7 to 10 days, then dry in the sun. A squeezed liquid can be boiled to a concentrate.
Hazelnut paste and gianduja-style spread
Roasted, skinned hazelnuts refined in a stone melanger into a fluid paste, then sweetened and finished with cocoa as a gianduja-style spread.
Goyang
Goyang is a Sherpa fermented wild leafy food of the Darjeeling hills and Sikkim. Rainy-season magane-saag leaves are packed in a bamboo basket, held at room temperature for about a month, then eaten fresh or dried and used in soup.
Fruit vinegar (Orleans method)
Fruit wine turned into vinegar by acetic acid bacteria at the surface of a half-filled, air-vented vessel. The Orleans method takes one to three months for a 9% wine.
Cà muối
Vietnamese salted and fermented small eggplant, dried on the day of purchase, then held submerged in warm salty water with garlic and galingale flower for a week or longer.
Tahini (sesame paste)
Toasted sesame seeds ground to a pourable paste, made by two manufacturer routes: a high-speed blender in minutes, or a stone chocolate refiner over three hours.
Sudanese braided cheese in brine
Sudanese braided cheese: curd ladled, salted, cut into strips and braided, then salted in brine and packed into tins filled with brine. A staple kept in brine rather than dried.
Spey chrourk
Cambodian pickle of blanched Chinese mustard greens, dried, then packed in a sweet-salt brine. Sold in Phnom Penh markets and made at home. The readiness times in the home recipe are not validated.
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Speck
A documentary account of one modern home-video demonstration of Speck-style cured pork. It preserves the food and regional context without presenting the unvalidated cure, smoking and drying sequence as instructions.
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Stockfish
Cod hung on open racks in cold northern air until most of its water has gone, leaving a hard, light, unsalted fish that keeps and travels and must be soaked for days before cooking.
Soparnik
A Croatian chard-filled flatbread baked in a home oven and finished with garlic oil.
South County Rhode Island johnnycakes
Thicker cornmeal cakes scalded with boiling water and cooked in butter. This South County formula is separate from thin Newport milk-batter cakes and Caribbean wheat breads.
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Siopao asado: water dough and pork filling
Filipino siopao pairs a soft steamed wheat bun with a sweet-savoury pork asado filling and a separate sauce made from its braising liquid.
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.
Pracharanda
Pracharanda is finely reduced dried pear used as a topping on porridge, dumplings and cakes in Czech sources. Accounts of its preparation differ.
Puba (carimã, Brazilian fermented cassava pulp)
A documentary account of puba (carimã), a Brazilian fermented cassava pulp. It records one 1998 study batch and reported uses; it is not a household recipe or a validated cassava-safety method.
Preserved lemons in their own juice
Lemon wedges are salt-cured under their own juice until the rind softens. Fermentation may begin, but the precise microbial process and safe storage limits for this formula are not established.
Pilpelchuma (chilli-garlic paste)
A chilli and garlic paste from the Libyan Jewish community, built on steamed dried peppers, garlic and cumin, now a common condiment in Israel.
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Pissalat
A salted, fermented paste of small fish from Nice, pounded with olive oil, spices and herbs and spread on bread. Unlike a clear fish sauce, it keeps the solids in the finished condiment.
Wasabi mayonnaise
A contemporary, untested mix of finished mayonnaise and prepared wasabi paste, beginning within the archive's 2–4 g range per 100 g mayonnaise.
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Terkin
Terkin, also called meluha, is a Sudanese fermented fish paste or sauce. Sources describe raw and cooked forms and different processing methods; none establishes validated safety controls.
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Tchoukou
Tchoukou, also called Tikomart, is a thin, dry Nigerien cheese made to keep seasonal milk for later use. Documented methods use animal rennet, shape drained curd into sheets and dry it.
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Tambadiang
Tambadiang is a Senegalese preparation of small whole fish that is pickled or salted and then dried. Sources differ on fish and process details; no single validated recipe or safety endpoint is established.
Sriracha mayonnaise
A contemporary, untested mix of finished mayonnaise, sriracha and lime juice, with starting amounts per 100 g mayonnaise.
Sourdough panettone, home batch
A tall Lombard Christmas bread enriched with butter, yolks and candied citrus, raised first with refreshed sourdough and then proofed in a paper mould.
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Soidon
Fermented tender bamboo-shoot tips from Manipur, started with the sour liquid of an earlier batch and eaten in chutneys and curries.
Soibum
Thin slices of juvenile bamboo shoots fermented for six to twelve months in Manipur, eaten as a sour side dish with rice.