Shio-Koji & Amazake Dressing
Shio-Koji & Amazake Dressing

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, shio-koji & amazake dressing. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shio-Koji & Amazake Dressing is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Shio-Koji & Amazake Dressing is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Japanese Ingredient Highlight: Shio koji (塩麹, 塩糀). A century-old natural seasoning used in Japanese cooking to marinate, tenderize, and enhance umami flavor of a dish. Sometimes a simple ingredient or condiment is.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shio-koji & amazake dressing using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shio-Koji & Amazake Dressing:
  1. Get 1/4 Finely chopped onion
  2. Prepare 1 tbsp Shio-koji
  3. Get 2 tbsp Strong amazake
  4. Prepare 1 -1 1/2 tablespoons Sherry vinegar, malt vinegar, red wine vinegar (or vinegar or lemon juice)
  5. Make ready 2 tbsp Olive oil (or grapeseed oil)
  6. Prepare 1 Black pepper

Apply Shio Koji to cut vegetables such as cucumber, Daikon radish, eggplants or cabbage, and rub Apply Shio Koji to chicken or pork. Shio koji isn't quite so glutamate-rich. Instead, it sets koji's enzymes to work on the ingredients Sakai likes to smear shio koji on salmon, set it in the fridge for a day or two, then wipe it off and cook. Shio koji is an ingredient in Japanese cooking with a history of at least a few hundred years.

Instructions to make Shio-Koji & Amazake Dressing:
  1. Just mix together all of the ingredients. It's quite concentrated, so should be mixed with a spoon. I recommend roughly chopping the onion to enjoy the texture.
  2. [Daikon Radish & Persimmon Salad] The salad in the photo is shredded daikon radish and persimmon topped with radish sprouts and dressing.
  3. [All-Purpose Seasoning with Shio Koji & Amazake Ama-Shio-Koji]It's handy to have a blend of shio-koji and amazake in stock. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/145420-all-purpose-seasoning-with-shio-koji-%EF%BC%86-amazake-sweet-shio-koji
  4. Feel free to use store-bought amazake; just make sure that it's concentrated (I recommend this Miyako-kouji: Kataneri Amazake).
  5. If you mix sherry or malt vinegar with amazake, it will turn a very pretty faint pink colour, which is why I added them. Malt vinegar has a very mild acidity.

Koji (also known as koji-kin) is a fungus or mold used to ferment foods or. Shio koji has been utilized as an ingredient, a seasoning and as a fermentation agent for foods and alcoholic beverages in Japan. Shio Koji translates to "salt mold" and is a type of fungus. When combined with salt it also makes a great marinade that enhances flavor and tenderizes. The texture is similar to fish marinated with miso, but the flavor is lighter.

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