Production method of brown rice koji and brown rice koji miso

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for preparing a miso excellent in nutritive value by using unpolished rice not mechanically processed at all as a koji raw material. ;SOLUTION: Unpolished rice is immersed in water, water is absorbed in the unpolished rice which is thermally retained and germinated in about 1 millimeter to give germinated unpolished rice. The germinated unpolished rice is allowed to cool, inoculated with Aspergillus oryzae of a mold starter and kept warm to give a germinated unpolished rice koji. The koji is mixed with soybeans which are immersed in water to absorb water, boiled and ground and with salt and fermented based on a conventional procedure to give a method for producing an unpolished rice miso. A miso rich in vitamin Bs and abundant in nutrition is obtained by the method.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO