Recipe of Award-winning California Farm Soy Bean Cakes: Tempeh

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make California Farm Soy Bean Cakes: Tempeh is 4 people. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook California Farm Soy Bean Cakes: Tempeh estimated approx Soak 24 hrs, cook 2 hrs, ferment 48 hrs.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have California Farm Soy Bean Cakes: Tempeh using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Natural fermented soy bean cakes from California dehulled organic soy beans, crop here is ready late summer. You need a special additive first time to inoculate the beans, after that, you save half a cup to inoculate the next batch. You make 4 to six cups after soaking 2 dry cups. You keep 1/2 cup fermenting 48 hours to inoculate the next batch. The mycelium growing between the beans forms the cake. In winter, you can culture the inoculated soybeans inside your crockpot inside a ziplock bag on warm setting, on your kitchen counter, or on a vivisun heating pad, ( amazon).

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make California Farm Soy Bean Cakes: Tempeh:

1. 2 cups non GMO, organic, dehulled, latest crop soy beans
2. 4 Tbs rice vinegar or natural apple cider vinegar
3. Tsp rhizopus mold (called tempeh starter culture on amazon)
4. or: one packet of ready made store bought tempeh as a starter culture
5. Tbs rice flour
6. Equipment: glass baking dish on Vivisun growing mat (amazon $9), or crockpot with gallon ziplock bag inside, square dish to press bean cake, food processor to grind dry inoculant, laser thermometer
7. Cost: soybeans $1.20, vinegar 20 cents, rhizopus mold (amazon) 20 cents portion, under 40 cents per meal

Steps to make to make California Farm Soy Bean Cakes: Tempeh

1. To make tempeh: Soak 2 cups of latest crop dry soybeans overnight in three times as much cold water. Makes four to six cups when soaked.
2. Rinse well, drain, then cover with 2 x as much fresh water, slow boil 2 hours, then add 4 Tbs vinegar, boil 20 more minutes, taste, if soft, drain, cool to 96F degrees). Pack 8 layers in glass baking dish. Add 3/4 teaspoon rhizopus starter mold, stir well. Cover, culture 24-36 hours. White sticky mold will appear, good! Form to shape sticky bean cake. Cut in butter stick size, wrap, freeze. Leave 1/2 cup in fermentation dish. Great meat substitute, like tofu. Enjoy!
3. To make rhizopus starter: leave half cup beans fermenting in the glass baking dish or ziplock bag at 35C degrees (96F degrees) another 12 hours, 48 hours total, more white mold will appear, then turn dark as it makes black spores. That is what you want. Cool. Mix in Tbs rice flour, Dry 3 days, pulverize in food processor or coffee grinder, freeze to make next batch.
4. To taste my tempeh, I use the same cooking method every time after I make it. I slice it thin (1/4 inch), brush thick palm sugar soy sauce (ketjap manis) mixed with fermented red pepper (sambal oelek) pretaste the marinade with my finger, then skillet fry the tempeh piece in peanut oil till crusty on the outside and soft on the inside. Palm sugar in the soy sauce will have carmelized. Enjoy.

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