Salted Black Beans/Fermented Black Beans

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Salted Black Beans/Fermented Black Beans
Oct 11, 2011 15:14
JOEC10 Points: Join Date: Jul 9, 2010 Status: offline	Greetings all! My question is. Is there a difference between salted black beans and fermented black beans or are they the same product?

Oct 11, 2011 17:18	#1
PEGASUS Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2011 Status: Offline	I am almost certain that those are terms used to describe the same product: dòuchǐ, one of my new favorite ingredients.

Oct 11, 2011 20:55

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PEGASUS is right. I guess it should be 豆豉. By the way, have you heard of 豆瓣酱 (thick broad bean sauce)? Once I thought they were the same thing but I was wrong. They are different things.

豆豉 is made of soy bean, which is used to make soy sauce. It looks black.

豆瓣酱 is made of broad bean. To make 豆瓣酱, you need to fully boil broad beans first. Then mix boiled broad beans with flour, ferment the mixture in fermentation chamber for 6-7 days until moulds appear. Then put them in an earth ware, add salt and water and ferment for 40-50 days until the broad beans turn brown. Then put red chili and salt in and ferment for 3-5 months. Finally, you make 豆瓣酱 successfully.

The following is 豆豉.

Oct 11, 2011 21:05	#3
XIAOXIAO Points: Join Date: Sep 17, 2008 Status: Offline	This is 豆瓣酱.

Oct 12, 2011 12:03	#4
PEGASUS Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2011 Status: Offline	Ohhh, yes, dòubànjiàng is amazing. (Haha, I can pronounce the true names, but I cannot spell them. ) I think the best comes from Píxiàn (since the people living in the area first developed it). It is one of the essential ingredients in Sichuan cooking, I believe, and very difficult to find in the states outside of the Chinatown areas.

Oct 12, 2011 12:19	#5
PEGASUS Points: Join Date: Sep 13, 2011 Status: Offline	Sorry, I hit the "Submit" button twice.
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Oct 12, 2011 20:53	#6
XIAOXIAO Points: Join Date: Sep 17, 2008 Status: Offline	I usually use 豆瓣酱 to cook Twice-Cooked Pork Slices (回锅肉). Do you use 豆瓣酱 to make dishes?

Nov 13, 2011 02:47	#7
JOEC10 Points: Join Date: Jul 9, 2010 Status: Offline	Thank you for the replies. I bought the black beans sealed in the plastic bag at an Asian store here. I've seen broad bean sauce in jars there also.

Nov 15, 2011 00:47	#8
XIAOXIAO Points: Join Date: Sep 17, 2008 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by JOEC10 Thank you for the replies. I bought the black beans sealed in the plastic bag at an Asian store here. I've seen broad bean sauce in jars there also. Haha, did buy some broad bean sauce? It makes the dishes delicious.

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