Natto for dogs
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Our dogs eat healthier than we do, enjoying fermented soybeans to keep their guts healthy. Since I’m already cooking their food once a month, Dog Food / Recipes | Cooking with Aloha, Texas Style why not add Japanese natto to their diet? It's easy with an Instant Pot, just takes 1 day to soak and next day to ferment.
This batch fills a 12-cupcake silicone mold for easy food prep. Dogs help with the cleanup by licking the spatula, good dogs!
Ingredients
- 3 C soybeans, about 1.3 pounds
Directions
- Rinse and soak 3 cups dry soybeans for 24 hours with extra water to cover the beans since they will expand in a large bowl
- Drain and place soybeans in steamer basket in the Instant Pot with 3 cups of water in bottom of pot coming up to the bottom of the steamer basket for my pot.
- Set to pressure cook and select beans cook for 3 hours.
- Remove the basket from the pot. Save ½ C of cooking liquid, set a side and discard the remaining liquid.
- Return soybeans back in the empty pot. Level out the beans and add 1/2 of a cup of the cooking liquid back in. The liquid provides the moisture needed for the beans to properly ferment.
- Place lid back on and set to yogurt setting which will ferment the beans and set the timer for 24 hours.
- Remove the lid and mix the beans until the stringy natto slime is visible.
- I use silicone cupcake molds and freeze, then pop out frozen natto cups in storage container since they defrost quickly.