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What is Koji exactly?
Koji is a traditional Japanese food ingredient used in the preparation of many traditional Japanese dishes. It is a type of mushroom culture grown on rice, soybeans or other ingredients. Koji has been used in Japanese cooking for centuries and plays an important role in the production of soy sauce, miso, sake and other fermented foods...
Onigiri – How to make the Japanese fun snack
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You probably know the delicious little snack in the shape of a triangle, don't you? Mathematically correct it is probably rather a prism, but here it should be about culinary. 😊 In any case, this rice triangle is called Onigiri or also Nigirimeshi or Omusubi...
Black or white - choose your sesame!
As soon as you start cooking Japanese food, you can hardly get past the small grains. However, sesame is grown around the Himalayas. The white sesame seeds are probably known in almost every kitchen in the world. The black grains are not quite as popular, although they are considered the original form of the sesame plant...