Soy sauce.
You can learn how to make soy sauce at home instead of buying it at the store. To make this, you’ll usually only need a few basic ingredients, including soybeans, flour, water, and salt. Making soy sauce is usually a long process. This will take at least a few weeks and may take a few months. The long waiting time from preparation to consumption allows the soy sauce to ferment properly.
soy beans
To make soy sauce, you’ll usually start with the soybeans, which make up the body of the soy sauce. You can start by boiling the soybeans until soft and then taking them out of their pods. At this point, cut the soy into small pieces and place them in a container with enough space to add the flour.
The next step in making soy sauce is to put flour in the soy bowl. You will need to mix the soy and flour together until they appear to be well combined. Place the mixture on a flat surface and knead to form a dough. Finally, you will need to form a cylindrical shape with the dough and cut the shape into small discs.
Making homemade soy sauce will require paper towels.
To complete the preparation of the soy sauce, you will need to add the mold, which is necessary for the fermentation process. You can grow your own mold to use for making soy sauce by moistening some paper towels with water and laying them out on a flat surface. You can then place the cut pieces of soy dough and flour on top of the paper towels and cover with more moistened paper towels. To allow the mold to form, you will need to let this dough sit, wrapped in plastic wrap, until the paper towels are well covered with mold.
Certain types of fungi are needed to process fermented soy sauce.
After the paper towels get moldy, remove the plastic wrap and place the soy dough on a plate or tray in the sun. They should stay there until they are dry and golden. Then place the discs of dough in a saucepan with 1 part salt and 16 parts water and cover, letting the liquid sit until the discs of dough dissolve. This can take weeks or months of waiting, and you’ll usually have to stir the pan every day. When the mass dissolves, you can strain the soy sauce and transfer it to the bottles.