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Soy and legumes from Japan — Ishikawa

Kaga miso加賀味噌

Kaga miso is the miso of the Kaga area in Ishikawa. A nutrition sheet describes it as slightly salty and rich. No source read gives its koji ratio, salt level or ripening time.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Kaga miso itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Etchū miso (Toyama rice-koji miso), the closest documented soy and legumes ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Kaga miso.

Short entrySoy and legumes

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedNo recipe amounts found in the sources read.
Soybeans
Rice koji
Salt

Total time across the steps of Etchū miso (Toyama rice-koji miso): 6.1 months – 12 months

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What changes: Soybeans boil, cool a little and are mashed

Step 1 of 5 · steps of Etchū miso (Toyama rice-koji miso)
Boil and mash the soybeans
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Moulds

The 1950s farm survey found many households boiled the beans too briefly, which slowed ripening. Output: mashed soybeans, cooled.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
mashed
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

boiling kills most microbes

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Kaga miso is the miso of the Kaga area in Ishikawa. A nutrition sheet describes it as slightly salty and rich. No source read gives its koji ratio, salt level or ripening time.

What makes this one different

Kaga miso is the miso of Kaga in Ishikawa; a nutrition sheet describes it as slightly salty with a rich taste. No primary source was found that sets it apart in numbers.

Related ferments

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [TSC-2017] Tokyo Seiei College, 日本各地のいろいろな味噌 (student nutrition sheet), 2017web