Ingredients for California Farm Red Oncom Bogor Fritters
- Make the Oncom:
- 3 cups soybeans, 750 grams
- 9 cups water
- 8 cups water
- 1 1/2 Tbs vinegar
- 1 Tsp lactic acid
- 2 1/2 Tsp black oncom starter mold, like rhizopus oligopsorus, or 2 1/2 Tsp red oncom starter like neurospora oncomensis or cup of ready made fresh or frozen red or black oncom
- Make the batter:
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup rice flour
- 1 tsp broth powder
- Cup water
- Spice the oncom pieces:
- 16 ice cube size oncom pieces
- 1 Tbs granulated garlic
- 1 tsp coriander
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 Tsp palm sugar
- 1 fresh farm egg
- 1 mexican green onion stalk
- Red onion, diced
- White onion, diced
- 5 small fresh chopped red peppers
- Equipment: airfryer oven with 85F degree setting, silicone ice cube trays with loose lids, probe thermometer
- Cost : red Oncom starter is $20 on the internet, can be used indefinitely after first culture. Black oncom starter is five dollars, soybeans 60 cents
Cooking Instructions for making California Farm Red Oncom Bogor Fritters
Make soy milk. Boil soy beans 15 minutes in 9 cups water, cool for 2 hours.
Run beans in dough maker to separate hulls and beans. Add water to sink beans, float hulls, skim off hulls.
Boil dehulled beans 30 minutes. Grind. Cook ground pulp 20 minutes in 8 cups water. Strain pulp from soymilk in cheese cloth. Refrigerate strained soymilk for later use. Pulp is called okara.
Bake pulp one inch thick on oven sheet at 300F degrees, 25 minutes. Cool to 85F degrees. Mix with vinegar. Mix with lactic acid. Mix thoroughly with oncom starter or crubled red oncom cubes. Place 1 inch deep in ice cube trays in dehydrator, lids loose on top, till white myccelium develops fully, 36 hours.
Mix ice cube size oncom pieces with onions and peppers and spice mix made into a paste.
Make thick batter, coat oncom pieces uniformly.
Fry in 350F degree peanut oil in wok till golden.
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