Natto can be served as part of a meal or as a snack. As with the rice bowl, you could add different sauces and seasonings to finish it off — even cheese or honey! Or you can go straight for the vinegar. ★☆ This is almost the same as the traditional version except with a raw egg on top. ★☆ It may be easier to use a spoon than chopsticks. I love the runny yolks of a sunnyside-up egg, and one day I realized that some stringy natto on the toast, with the egg on top just makes the gooey-ness that much better. By adding your email you agree to get updates about Spoon University Healthier. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Would love to know where you purchased the little blue & white cat bowl and spoon that you posted with your recipe!! Next, take a pair of chopsticks and stir the natto in one direction a lot (but try not to spill). Besides natto rice, there are some recommended ways to eat it: Natto pasta (Japanese) Natto toast (Japanese) Western style natto bowl (Japanese) Natto scrambled egg (Japanese) Natto fried rice (Japanese) When combining natto with other dishes, like pasta, you can remove the stickiness by washing natto with water. There are plenty of other things you can add to spice it up; some standard toppings include soy sauce, sesame oil, sesame seeds, shredded nori (seaweed), and raw egg. It was amazing! You think okra is slimy? If you mix the honey and natto the night before, the results are even more impressive. I mix my home made natto with brown rice, garlic, leek, maitake mushroom, spices, sometimes add broccoli, kale or any other veggie. It is typically offered in small, round single packs, or bundled into 3 medium, square packages. ( Log Out /  The texture is slimy, sticky, stringy, and gooey. Being pre-diabetic I have to be careful of the spikes that white rice can give. What a discovery! When, where, how, and why do you like it best? So you can imagine my surprise when I realized I actually enjoyed the taste of it, along with the slimy texture. Natto Over Rice with Raw Egg. Now, take the two sauce packets you set aside earlier and add them to the natto. Thank you for sharing this Neal! 7 Comments, Posted in: 30 Minutes or Less, Japanese recipes, Rice, Your email address will not be published. Pickled Plum Limited Edition Ingredients Box, https://pickledplum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Natto.mp3, Place the rice in a bowl and top with the remaining ingredients. I like to let the fish marinate in a bit of miso first (maybe with some vinegar too), then eat it alongside the natto, or all mixed in together. If you bought natto frozen, leave it in the fridge overnight and it will be ready to eat the next day. Your natto is now fully prepared! I love the runny yolks of a sunnyside-up egg, and one day I realized that some stringy natto on the toast, with the egg on top just makes the gooey-ness that much better. I want to know a recipe for the packaged seasonings. There are so many different ways to eat natto that to list them all would require me to start a blog just for that. Natto usually comes in a set of three styrofoam boxes priced between $1-3. I stir natto(alone or with rice) about 200 times to make it more stringy and gooey. Natto's smell has been compared to smelly socks and stinky cheese. A nice balsamic — thick and sweet, aged in wooden casks — somehow mellows and accentuates the natto simultaneously. There are a lot of brands to choose from, different flavors (wasabi, kimchi, pickled plum) and even types of beans. Obviously, the vast majority of Americans have never tried natto; but even disregarding them, there still seems to be more variety than just the staunch lovers and haters in this country. If you buy it with the bone and skin on, you can get quite a lot of fish for not much money, which is nice. Copyright © 2019 Her Campus Media LLC. But even alone, the crunchy, thick, and mild-tasting toast offers the perfect contrast to the chewy and strong-flavored natto. Read my disclaimer here. I have never attempted to make my own but if you decide to give it a try, make sure to leave a comment below to let me know how it turned out! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Happy eating, and good natto you all. Aside from the trendy eats like kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, yogurt, miso, etc., there's one food in this group that's much less well-known and a little trickier to eat. Nothing else on this planet tastes like natto is truly the best answer to this question, you just have to try it to find out. If you do think of it, trying taking your natto out of the fridge the night before you eat it, and leave it uncovered at room temp. Feel free to eat it as is or warmed shortly in the microwave. It’s also nice to not have all the packaging that normally comes with natto. You will have to purchase the soybeans separately. I basted the meat lightly with the sauce, and also mixed the sauce in with the natto. // It’s usually sold in individual portions, packaged in styrofoam that also include a tare sauce and yellow mustard. , Thanks for the comment, Justine. Yep, who knew it would be possible to have this many fermented bean lovers under one roof! I’m not enough of a natto connoisseur to say if mine is better than the store bought – I live in the sticks so getting natto is nigh impossible where I live. Eating natto this way feels decadent! The general rule of thumb is to stir clockwise 50 times. Hope you’ve been enjoying your experiments…. ★☆ I personally love it so today I’m sharing with you my favorite ways to enjoy these fermented soybeans. My brother suggested trying natto with BBQ sauce a few weeks back, and I was skeptical at first, not least because I don’t know any BBQ sauce whose ingredients I really trust. Your email address will not be published. I looked at the package for suggestions on how to serve it so I added some tamari & homemade mustard sauce. ( Log Out /  It’s often served as a breakfast food in Japan and has a very distinctive flavor and texture – stinky and slimy. It tastes earthy, musty, yeasty, a tad bitter, and packs the familiar punch of its fermented brethren. Plus, there’s another big fan of it in the house – Ben. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. So I’ve decided to only list the most popular ways to eat natto along with one of my favorite natto recipes. But to give you an idea, natto lovers (including myself) would compare the taste to aged cheese, foie gras, or Marmite. This was a revelation for me. I was sitting in a booth with my then boyfriend and poured the stinky stringy soybeans over the virgin white rice. But here’s the crazy part – if you love it like Ben and I do, you will crave it all the time despite all the unappealing yet true comparisons! Again, get creative with this and add toppings either into the egg mixture or after the omelet is cooked. Natto is relatively inexpensive to buy, and can be purchased for as little as $0.89 USD (0.77 Euro) or as much as $3.00 USD (2.58 Euro).

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