To tell you the simple homemade Sichuan water bean drums:

1. Go to Itami Yokado to buy Japanese natto, Chengdu's Itami Jinhua store sells it (in the Second Ring Road Wanda Plaza), and buy the cheapest one, because it takes a little bit of it for the strains, and it's about l4 yuan for two small boxes. Buy back to the refrigerator to save for use.

2. To the supermarket to buy soybeans, about 5 yuan a catty, one time to do a catty family of 3 can eat many days.

3. Soak the soybeans in warm water for 12-24 hours.

4. Cook soybeans with a pressure cooker, pay attention to the water to put less, pressure cooker on the steam pressure valve, switch to a small fire to keep 30-45 minutes, such as pressure is too great, you can turn off the fire, and then turn on the fire to cook. The purpose is to cook the soybean soft, with a finger gently press into the crushed end of the best. If the soybean cooking fire is not enough, the final made of water drum taste must not be delicious.

5. Use a slotted spoon to drain the water from the soybeans, and then cool it down a bit (estimated temperature of 50 degrees) to put the soybeans into a covered container. Note: Everything must be kept clean and oil-free for fear of contamination by stray bacteria. The temperature of the soybeans must not be too high, more than 70 degrees Natto bacteria will be scalded to death, too low is not easy to ferment, 50 degrees or so just add Natto bacteria.

6. Buy Japanese natto from the refrigerator out, open the box, take out the two packets of small seasonings inside without, the natto as a strain into the cooked soybean at about 50 degrees, and use chopsticks and well. General 500 grams of soybeans put 20-30 grams of strains, just a small box of natto weighing more than 20 grams.

7. Prepare a cardboard box, an electric blanket (foot-warming electric blanket is best), small quilt. In the cardboard box with electric blankets, quilts to make a nest, and good strains of soybean (container) while hot to put inside the nest, cover the lid, open the electric blanket, low-temperature gear can be. Note: the temperature can not be too high, to keep in the hand feel warm in the nest that is enough, do not burn your hands. Boxes do not have to cover the dead, cardboard box cover and then take a mat or something can be, let it a little air, because the water drum fermentation needs air and a certain degree of humidity, it is best to use the lid with small holes in the container, to maintain the ventilation can be.

8. soybean in the cardboard box nest insulation fermentation 12-14 hours is good, exactly one night. Take out with chopsticks to pick up to see, up a lot of silk means success! Taste one, not bitter, not sour, without any strange taste, ok!

9. Will be fermented successfully water edamame mixed with ginger, dried rooibos, salt, oil chili, adjusted to suit their tastes, with a food bag into a small bag of a small bag, estimated that each bag of portions enough to eat their own family for 1-2 days. Put the bags of water bean drums into the freezer, and freeze them into ice. When eating, the first day from the freezer out of a bag, natural thawing, and then eat the next day, is delicious Sichuan water edamame.