Cold Mountain Dry Rice Koji

Available from Chef Shop when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

20 oz tub - California As featured on Netflix series, SALT FAT ACID HEAT, with Samin Nosrat Koji is one of the key ingredients used to make miso. Koji is made from steamed rice inoculated with "koji starter", consisting of spores of the mold Aspergillus oryzae, then incubated for about 45 hours until each kernel of rice is covered with a bloom of fragrant white mold. The rice is then dried, preserving the mold on the outside of the rice kernels. The function of mold is to produce enzymes that wi