Making koji at home doesn't have to be hard. Here is a simple tutorial on how to make koji.

[Ingredients]
・600g (21oz) Rice
・5g (0.2oz) Koji Starter
*feel free to use more koji starter for stronger fermenting power.

[Instructions]
1) Wash the rice.
2) Soak the clean rice in water.
3) Drain water from the rice.
4) Steam the rice for 40 minutes.
5) Put the rice on top of cloth layered koji tray. Sprinkle the koji seed (koji starter) on steamed rice (seeding).
6) Wrap the rice with cloth and keep it warm in a food warmer device.
7) Do the first maintenance of koji: If the koji temperature reaches 40℃, open the cloth wrapping and spread and stir the rice to untangle it.
8) Move the wrapped rice to the food warmer.
9) Second maintenance of koji: 5-6 hours after you move the rice to koji box, do another maintenance. Untangle the koji clump and stir it around.
10) After several hours from the second maintenance, when the temperature of the koji rice rises above 40℃, please do another maintenance again.
11) Completion of koji.

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