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Nhút mít / nhút Thanh Chương (Nghệ An young-jackfruit ferment)nhút mít

Young jackfruit is shredded, half-dried in the sun, pounded with salt and mixed with roasted glutinous maize flour and dried herbs. It is packed into a stoneware jar, just covered with cooled boiled water and pressed under a bamboo mat and a river stone, and can be eaten after about five days.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Nhút mít / nhút Thanh Chương itself.

Short entryFruit5 days

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
young jackfruit (made in lunar months 2–3, before the seed coat forms)
non-iodised salt
sun-dried rau ngổ (Enhydra fluctuans)
roasted ground glutinous maize
chilli
small onions
galangal

Total time across the recorded steps: 5 days

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What changes: Young jackfruit is peeled under running water and shredded into strands

Step 1 of 4
Peel and shred the young jackfruit
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Peeled under running water because of the sticky latex; an optional rice-water soak whitens the strands.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

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

Young jackfruit is shredded, half-dried in the sun, pounded with salt and mixed with roasted glutinous maize flour and dried herbs. It is packed into a stoneware jar, just covered with cooled boiled water and pressed under a bamboo mat and a river stone, and can be eaten after about five days. Made in 4 steps over 5 days. The longest step, pack under water, a bamboo mat and a stone, takes 5 days (Vietnamese Wikipedia 2026).

Key numbers
Main step5 daysReported[s1]Pack under water, a bamboo mat and a stone

What makes this one different

Nhút uses young jackfruit picked before the seed coat forms, half-dried before salting, and the jar is filled with maize flour and dried herbs as well as fruit.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Xơ mít muối (salted ripe-jackfruit rags)The fibrous rags of a ripe jackfruit, salted and pressed in a jar for a few days, torn and eaten with kinh giới herb and garlic-chilli fish sauce.

History and sources

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

  1. [s1] Vietnamese Wikipedia, Nhút mít (công thức, cách làm), read 2026-10-23wiki