Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ferment used by the Japanese in making sake or rice-wine.
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- noun a
mold , Aspergillus oryzae, used in the manufacture ofmiso ,amasake ,sake etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This bottle also happens to be certified organic by the USDA, meaning everything from the rice to the yeast, and the magical mold known as koji that helps with the fermentation, is organic.
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Navigating through some narrow streets, we found a couple of nice old Japanese streets including Ishibei-koji which is said to be the most beautiful street in Japan, if not Asia.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Français · Argentine: À Buenos Aires, un mur sépare deux quartiers srpski · Argentina: Zid koji deli 2 komšiluka u Buenos Aires-u
Global Voices in English » Argentina: A Wall Separating Two Neighborhoods in Buenos Aires 2009
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Rock Sake has a huge advantage brewing its sake -- made from Sacramento valley rice, Oregon mountain spring water, Japanese koji mold and yeast -- in the US.
Kevin Gould: Rock On: Rock Sake Makes its Mark Kevin Gould 2011
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Prije svega bih htio pohvaliti gospodina Ivana Miloloža, koji se primio posla istraživanja* produktivnosti i stavio brojke na papir.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ante Karamati 2009
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Ružan je, a i dinamovci nemaju toliko gledanost, ko bi ga napunija, bespotrebno trošenje para..to zna svak koji je iti jedan put pogleda utakmicu dinama.
Blue Volcano is a Solar Cloud-Topped Eco-Stadium for Zagreb, Croatia | Inhabitat 2010
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| Reply holy heart failure! whoever designed that bomb needs to rethink their timing hehehe! koji
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Oce naš, koji jesi na nebesima, sveti se ime Tvoje.
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Za one koji budu dovodili u pitanje moj patriotizam, Sarajlija koji je bez obzira na mogućnosti ostao cijeli rat u BiH i Sarajevu i borio se za istu.
Asmir Begovic: "I Don't Want To Switch" Andrew Bates 2009
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Kada bi OOXML bio ono sto se deklarira, onda bi to bilo u smjeru koji su sami zadali - i ja bi ih podrzao.
Sramoto! Ante Karamati 2007
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Noma’s philosophy is to use only local ingredients, so Williams grew the mould on pearl barley and then transferred the kōji to Nordic legumes, including Gotland lentils, lupin seeds and, most successfully, yellow peas.
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Graham Lawton 2025
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Researchers at Japan’s National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Tsukuba, for example, have been experimenting with brie-style cheeses ripened with kōji moulds.
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Graham Lawton 2025
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Traditional miso is made by growing the filamentous fungus Aspergillus oryzae on steamed white rice, transferring the resulting mould – called kōji – onto salted soybeans and leaving the mixture to ferment, sometimes for years, creating a rich, umami paste with multiple culinary uses.
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Graham Lawton 2025
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Replacing it with kōji moulds produces a finished product that is similar, but not identical, to Camembert.
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Graham Lawton 2025
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In 2021, a team led by Eddy Smid at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands created a dairy miso by applying kōji to quark cheese.
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Graham Lawton 2025
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Researchers at the Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Dairy Biotechnology in China, meanwhile, are experimenting with using a different kōji mould, Monascus purpureus, in place of Penicillium roqueforti.
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Graham Lawton 2025
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