Making your own soybean sauce is not difficult at all, but it is a long process. There are several steps to make the sauce: 1. cook the beans 2. cover the beans 3. dry the beans 4. lay the sauce 5. seal the sauce.

Which cover the beans is also mold beans is the most important link, the process of mold beans is the process of fermentation of soybeans, is in order to have the production of mold. After the fermentation is completed, the beans will grow hair, which is "mold", the color of the hair is yellowish green, white, and black, to yellowish green for the best. The black color is best avoided.

The process of making soybean paste:

The first step: cooking beans

1, select the particles full of soybeans without impurities, wash, soak for a few hours or overnight, add water on the fire to cook, cook to the soybeans are soft, it can be, the beans can not be too rotten (conditions can be soybean steaming, steaming out of soybean water, muffled beans effect)

2, boiled Soybeans out, water control, cool.

The second step: cover the beans (mold beans) This is the most important step in the whole process of making sauce, cover the beans successfully, the sauce is also basic eight or nine not quite ten

1, mix the flour. The flour is evenly mixed with the cooled soybeans and mixed well.

2, mix the flour soybean evenly spread on the bamboo plaque, covered with a clean towel or cloth, placed in a cool place, such as soybean mold. (Pickle network reminds the bamboo plaque should be placed in the space between the place, the bottom should be breathable.)

3, in fact, the soybean on the process of mold is the process of fermentation, probably need a week's time, during this period, there will be a lot of heat, from time to time with a hand to touch the towel covered, and so touch the temperature, basically on the fermentation or mold is good, at this time, open the coverings, you will see that the soybeans covered with a layer of army-green mold, this is even if the mold is good. Don't be afraid when you see something furry like this! Soybean paste must have to cultivate the process of mold, some people say they can not see this hairy things, there are psychological barriers, in fact, that is really too redundant, we buy the sauce as well as soy sauce are through this process to come, if their own production is not assured, then buy the unseen can be assured? And a lot of what we eat is fermented, so there's no need to be concerned!

Tips:

The fermentation process will heat up and produce water vapor, if the bottom of the container where the beans are placed is not airtight, it will cause water to accumulate, so that the beans will be sticky until they stink and fail. My home side is to put the bean cake on the straw, and then covered with a layer of straw fermentation, the city straw is not easy to find ah. Checked the information, some people put the beans on a wooden board, covered with paper and covered with clothing. I was put on a bamboo plaque, some friends do not have bamboo weaving, you can use a dishwashing basket with a tray, this dishwashing basket has a loophole in the part of the beans, so that the heat generated in the heat process can be lost, the bottom of the tray to cover the top, so that there is room for beans to grow moldy and hairy, the fermentation process requires a certain temperature, so in the beans to be covered with something.

The fermentation process can not let the beans exposed to the air, be sure to cover, the weather is hot basically 4-5 days on the fermentation is complete, there is a week, depending on the fermentation. Covered for too long will not work.

The third step: sun beans. Will mold good beans, sun a big sun, lumps of broken. Of course, there are some places where the moldy beans are not dried directly under the sauce, but the taste is not as fragrant as the sun.

1, if immediately under the sauce, sunshine one day can.

2, if you do not want to immediately under the sauce, more sunshine, dry, moldy beans after drying, can be preserved for a long time, you can collect up to want to do when the sauce out of the sauce, and can be sent to distant relatives and friends.

The fourth step: under the sauce.

1, under the sauce, be sure to wait for the moldy beans cooled to do it, otherwise, the soybean sauce is easy to sour. The moldy beans that have been exposed to a big sun, put them overnight, and the next morning under the sauce.

2. Prepare a container for the sauce, preferably a large mouth container. Clean, no raw water, no oil. Put in the molded beans, add salt, add cold water, the amount of water did not exceed the beans. Stir well, the mouth of the bottle covered with glass or gauze, put it in the sun.

3, every day in the evening or early in the morning, and so the sun sauce cool, with a clean tool up and down stirring, if you want the beans to rot some, this time you can also use a special tool in the stirring time to keep pressing.

4, keep repeating every day, stirring, sun, stirring, sun, until the soybean sauce blackened, turned dark brown, rich sauce, soybean sauce is done, this process, it takes many days. About a month or two. Of course, using an open ceramic pot to dry the sauce can shorten the fermentation time, almost half a month.

Tips:

Some places after the sauce, will not be sunshine, directly put the altar sealed to the side of the fermentation, placed two or three months after the opening of the food, which is called yin sauce. Our side is to take the sauce to the hot sun, after the sun sauce is very fragrant, strong flavor. If you want to eat soy sauce, put more salted boiling water and put it in a sunny place to dry for two or three months and then it becomes soy sauce.

In the process of sunshine sauce, there is another place to pay attention to, when the sauce is hot, do not stir, it is easy to sour. You can wait until the next morning to stir it.

Friends who can't get sun at home can make yin sauce, the taste won't be far from it, only the fermentation time will be longer, it will take two or three months to finish.

Step 5: Seal the sauce.

If you do pure soybean paste, this time, even if it is finished, will do a good job of soybean paste in bottles, the top of a thick layer of sesame oil poured on, put in a cool, dry place can be put, put a while later, more fragrant.

Tips:

If you want to do soybean sauce, it is necessary to wait until autumn, after the fall, buy chili peppers, ginger, and whatever you want to put things, add your favorite seasonings, add to the good soybean sauce, bottling, but also with a thick layer of sesame oil seal the bottle, and put one of a period of time, the home-grown soybean sauce is done. Do hot sauce, must wait until after the fall, and then do, otherwise it is easy to bad.

This method can also do broad bean sauce, bowl of soybean milk. Fava bean paste is darker in color than soybean paste.

Historical origin

Folklore: The sauce was created by Fan Li (lí) inadvertently. According to legend, Fan Li was seventeen years old when he was managing the kitchen in the house of a rich man. Due to his inexperience, the food was often not cooked to his liking and there was a lot of leftovers, which became rancid and sour after a long time. In order to prevent his master from discovering the food, Fan Li put it in the pantry. However, there is no impermeable wall, this matter was eventually discovered by the owner, who scolded him and limited him to ten days to turn the rancid food into something useful. The clever Fan Li first long green hairs white hairs of the food with things to deal with, and then dry and then fry with a pot to remove the odor to kill bacteria, add some warm water and stir into a paste to feed the pigs. The rich man was quite happy to see the pigs eating happily. Later, a small worker and Fan Li joked, the food in the noodles to Fan Li, did not expect, the noodles especially flavorful. At this time, the little worker told the original story, and inspired by this, Fan Li used this rancid hairy food to create a delicious sauce.

Nutritional analysis

1. soybean sauce is mainly composed of protein, fat, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., which are indispensable nutrients;

2. soybean sauce is rich in high-quality proteins, cooking not only increase the nutritional value of the dish, and protein in the microbial role of amino acids, which can make the dish presents a more flavorful Taste, appetizing effect;

3. soybean paste is also rich in linoleic acid, linolenic acid, the human body to supplement the necessary fatty acids and reduce cholesterol are beneficial, thereby reducing the chances of cardiovascular disease;

4. soybean paste in the fat is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and soybean phospholipids, to maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, brain and prevent the formation of fatty liver role.

Therapeutic effects

Soybean taste sweet and flat, can "expel water bloating, remove stomach heat paralysis, injury in the shower. Under the blood, scattered five visceral accumulation of internal cold," etc., is a good therapeutic food.

According to research, soybean saponin can slow down the aging of the human body; soybean lecithin can be removed from the blood vessel walls of cholesterol; to maintain vascular softening; soybean inhibition of pancreatic each, on diabetes has certain therapeutic effects; soybean phosphorus content can be considerable, the brain is very beneficial to the nerves, neurasthenia and physical weakness, often eaten with benefit; soybean rich in iron, iron deficiency anemia, patients, a great benefit.

Pharmacological effects: tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, strengthening the spleen and promoting dampness, stopping bleeding and lowering blood pressure, astringent and stopping the efficacy of the belt; the main treatment for the lack of middle qi, lethargy and less food, high blood pressure, hemoptysis, epistaxis, and women's diseases such as hypoglossia. It can delay arteriosclerosis, lower cholesterol, promote intestinal peristalsis and improve appetite. At the same time, it also contains phospholipids, an important component of the brain and nervous tissue, and is rich in choline, which has a brain-healthy effect and can enhance memory. Soybean paste is to reduce prostate hyperplasia and bowel cancer incidence of therapeutic good.