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How to make soy sauce?

The main ingredient is soybean 2000g, the auxiliary ingredient is salt 1 100g, soy sauce koji 2g, flour 20g and water 6500g.

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Steps to make your own soy sauce: 1 1. Soak soybeans without wrinkles, rinse them with clear water for several times, dry them, put them in a steamer for cooking for 1-2 hours, then cease fire and naturally cool them. Do not steam soybeans until the temperature drops below 40℃. Inoculate soy sauce koji, mix koji and flour evenly, and mix it evenly with soybeans, so that soybeans are stained with flour.

The practice of homemade soy sauce step 22. Put the mixed soybeans in a clean box, wrap them in cloth, and put them on an empty shelf for fermentation and koji making.

Step 33. The optimum temperature is 30-35 degrees, 8- 12 hours. Turn the material once when it turns white, and the time can be extended if the temperature is low.

The method of making soy sauce by ourselves takes about 44.28 hours, and the surface of soybean will be covered with hyphae (yellow-green hyphae). At this time, koji-making has been completed. (Affected by season and temperature, it may take a little longer to grow hyphae. )

Step 55 of homemade soy sauce. Put the prepared koji in the sun for 3 days.

Step 66: put the homemade soy sauce into an jar or bottle, add 2.5 kg 14.5% salt water (salt water temperature is 55-60℃), then seal it, expose it to the sun and ferment the koji, stir it with a wooden stick 1 time every day, and add 5 kg 14.5% salt water after 7 days, and the water temperature is 50℃.

After 77.4 months, I opened the soy sauce and saw that the color was already deep and the sauce was very fragrant. It will taste better if it is dried for a long time.

The practice of homemade soy sauce step 88. Squeeze the residue with a gauze bag.

Step 99 of homemade soy sauce. The soy sauce was filtered out.

Steps to make your own soy sauce: 10 10. Add salt water to the soy sauce residue, then filter and repeat for 3 times.

The steps of making soy sauce are111. Heat and sterilize in a pot, cook for about 15 minutes, and skim off the foam.

The steps of making your own soy sauce are 12 12. Cooked soy sauce tastes delicious.

Steps to make your own soy sauce: 13 13. It is best to put the cooked soy sauce in a bottle without sealing it. The bottle mouth is wrapped with gauze to prevent dust. Air drying for about 20 days, the taste is better.