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Place a clean moistened cheese cloth over the top of the containers and place a lid over the cheese cloth. 2 organic soybeans from a local farmer.
1 1 2 cups organic soybeans.
Making natto at home. Place beans in a large pot fill with water and boil for 3 4 hours until tender but not mushy. Drain the cooked beans and place in a sterilized pot. Dissolve one special spoonful of natto spores into 2 teaspoons of sterilized water.
While the beans are still warm pour the natto spore solution over the beans. To make the natto you ll need nattomoto powder which contains natto spores. Use the special spoon that comes with the powder to add one spoonful of the spores to a small sterilized bowl.
Add 2 teaspoons 10 ml of boiled water to the powder and stir the mixture with a sterilized spoon until the powder dissolves. How to make your own homemade natto. To begin wash the soybeans with a strainer and then soak them in water for 24 hours.
Steam the soybeans for approximately 3 6 hours stopping when they can be easily crushed with your fingers. Be sure that all utensils and dishes are clean and sterile as well as your hands. We enjoy natto daily added to our short grain brown rice morning porridge.
The benefits of natto are innumerable from reducing bone loss improving heart and brain health gut health reducing cancer risks and the fermentation process treats numerous health diseases. How i make natto. 1 1 2 cups organic soybeans.
How to make natto at home. Today i will share with you the basic way of making natto using rice straw. Things you need to make natto.
1 rice straw from an organic farmer in your region. You want to get local rice straw because that contains local natto germs. 2 organic soybeans from a local farmer.
3 a pressure cooker 4 a yogurt maker. I explain how to make natto. Natto is a traditional japanese food made from fermented soybeans usually eaten with soy sauce and karashi mustard.
Pour the natto spore solution over warm beans you may also inoculate using natto from a previous batch. Stir the mixture with sterile spoon. Place beans in shallow containers.
Keep beans in a thin layer approximately 3 beans high. Place a clean moistened cheese cloth over the top of the containers and place a lid over the cheese cloth. Natto is a japanese fermented soy dish that can be made very easily from cooked soybeans.
In order to make natto at home you will need a couple of things. First you will have to obtain some cultured natto bacillus natto kin to add to some cooked soybeans. Simply obtain some frozen natto from an asian market.
So a 3 pack 150gr of okame natto frozen natto will yield 27 batches of natto. Mix the melted packaged natto with the sterile spoon and add 2 4 soup spoons about 2 4 measuring teaspoons of the hot water from pressure cooker. Add enough while making sure it does not puddle on the bottom.