Kinzanji Miso Tane Koji (Packet)-Starter for Kinzanji & Mame Miso

$18.00
Limit 5 per order

Kinzanji miso isn't a seasoning, it's a food. You eat it on rice, on cucumber, straight off the spoon. It's koji made from rice, barley, and soybeans together, mixed with chopped eggplant, cucumber, shiso, ginger, and carrot, then left to ferment into something closer to a relish than a paste.

This is the starter for that mixed koji, and it's also what I use for mame miso — the all-soybean miso from Aichi that goes into red miso soup and dote-ni.

It's the most unusual thing in this shop and the one almost nobody outside Japan has made. That's exactly why I keep carrying it.

20g makes about 15 kg of koji. Sealed, it keeps indefinitely.

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Kinzanji miso isn't a seasoning, it's a food. You eat it on rice, on cucumber, straight off the spoon. It's koji made from rice, barley, and soybeans together, mixed with chopped eggplant, cucumber, shiso, ginger, and carrot, then left to ferment into something closer to a relish than a paste.

This is the starter for that mixed koji, and it's also what I use for mame miso — the all-soybean miso from Aichi that goes into red miso soup and dote-ni.

It's the most unusual thing in this shop and the one almost nobody outside Japan has made. That's exactly why I keep carrying it.

20g makes about 15 kg of koji. Sealed, it keeps indefinitely.

In stock now. Shipping is calculated at checkout.

  • What is kinzanji miso? Kinzanji miso is mixture of Kinzanji Koji (mixed Koji of rice, barley, and soybeans) and chopped vegetables such as eggplants, cucumbers, shiso, carrots, ginger roots, etc.

    The traditional koji maker, HISHIROKU, has been in business for 300 years in Kyoto.

  • Tane Koji 20g for making 15kg rice Koji. Tane Koji can be preserved indefinitely when sealed.

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    Orders ship within 5 business days. Standard shipping is $7 per order, no matter how many packets you order.