Shio-koji has become a standard seasoning ingredient in our home. Since I use it to make many dishes, I added the recipe for it here. Since our children don't like salty food, I prepare it with less salt than usual.Since I believe using better quality ingredients result in better flavor, I used natural salt from Ogasawara island.The key is to maintain a consistent fermenting temperature (60 ℃).It's also important to rely on your sight and smell to judge when it is ready when stirring it daily. Recipe by Torachanta-tan

I came up with this recipe for my corn-loving children. Recipe by Okame mama

Shio-koji is an all-purpose flavoring ingredient with a mild saltiness and the umami of malted rice that makes any ingredient delicious. We don't buy it - we always make it at home.You can make shio-koji easily without having to fuss over it too much. I recommend using koji with visible spore threads. Shio-koji is especially suited for marinating salmon and chicken. You can also marinate vegetables with it, make dressings, sauces, and using in stir fries. Recipe by Mimato

Koji or rice malt is indispensable for making miso or amazake. The custom of making shio-koji or salt fermented rice malt has been around since olden times in the Tohoku region apparently. When the malt is fermented with salt, the edge is taken off the salt and it becomes sweet and well rounded - a magical salty flavoring ingredient. It's a multi-purpose ingredient. Use it instead of salt. The amino acids in the shio-koji help to tenderize meat and make it delicious.As long as you have shio-koji, you just need to spread it on the meat. For thinly cut meat for yakiniku or chicken, you just need to let it marinate for 1 hour, up to half a day. The results are mildly salty and delicious! There are two types of "koji": one grows on soy beans, and the other on rice grains. Here we use the "koji" that is grown on steamed rice and then freeze-dried. You can buy this in bags at a Japanese supermarket. Recipe by kebeibiko

You can increase the sophistication of a dish just by adding a little frozen shio-koji.Shio-koji soboro is not only delicious with ground beef, but also with a mix of ground beef and pork. You don't need to use homemade shio-koji, store bought ones are also useful to have on hand. Recipe by kebeibiko

Koji, rice malt, is considered very healthy and boom in Japan. It helps meat tender and enrich dishes. However, it is expensive, so why don't you make by yourself?

Even when I just regularly added the vegetables in, this came out as a professional-tasting fried rice.Make sure to completely wipe off the excess moisture and grease from the frying pan with paper towels! If you skip this, the fried rice won't be crumbly! Recipe by Petoro

Volumetrics Marinated with ingredients mushrooms.

Koji is a steamed cereal（rice / wheat / soybean） that is propagated with koji mold.Miso, soy sauce, mirin, salted rice malt (Shio-koji) , soy sauce with rice malt, amazake, etc. are made using this koji.Koji has the function of drawing out the umami of ingredients, promoting digestion and absorption, and regulating the intestines.Please try to incorporate traditional Japanese fermented seasonings into your daily food.

I just came up with this recipe.I cooked a rice cooker cup first, added 2 teaspoons of shio-koji and it was well-seasoned.Step 1 Use fresh or frozen edamame. (You don"t have to boil the frozen edamame.) It's also good with green peas. Recipe by Yuuyuu0221

One of my friends on mixi taught me how to make brown rice amazake, so I decided to make brown rice amazake with miyako-koji.Basically it ended up being easier than I thought because all I had to do was mix the koji into the porridge.The enzymes will break down at 70℃ or higher, so if you want to preserve them, be sure not to bring it back up to a boil.In Step 1, I referred to miru-san'sfor how to germinate the rice.In Step 4, the real way to make it is to put it in a hot water bath, cover with a cloth and keep warm and uncovered for about 10 hours at 55°C-60°C. However that is a pain in the neck to do, so I just used some disposable chopsticks to make a gap, and left it like that. Recipe by Mikikimiki