{"id":306,"date":"2007-07-03T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/04\/okara-milking-the-soy-bean-to-the-very-end\/"},"modified":"2015-01-02T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:10:14","slug":"okara-milking-the-soy-bean-to-the-very-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/03\/okara-milking-the-soy-bean-to-the-very-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Okara: Milking the soy bean to the very end"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since we got ourselves a soya bean milk maker, we’ve been left with this powdery residue called okara<\/a>. (You can also extract milk by hand<\/a> if you like.)<\/p>\n

Okara has a powdery texture, is tasteless and doesn’t have much nutritional value but is high in fibre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Making tofu also produces okara. (In fact, I was doing research on tofu making that I discovered this by-product even had a name.) Maybe this is why okara is sometimes called “tofu lees”. But I much prefer okara.<\/p>\n

My father had been using okara on his plants to make compost, but I was convinced more could be done with this residue.<\/p>\n

I fed it to the dogs. They ate it, but they didn’t like it too much. No surprise there. It is tasteless after all. Adding a teaspoon of cod liver oil helped a great deal.<\/p>\n

Still, I wasn’t happy.<\/p>\n

I read somewhere that okara was mainly used as animal feed and because of that, many tofu manufacturers are located near animal farms.<\/p>\n

Besides cattle, vegetarians also seem to enjoy okara. They’re used to make vegetarian burgers<\/a>, crab cakes<\/a> and tempeh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s not just interesting for vegetarians, but also for regular meat eating folk like us – koftas<\/a>, miso soup<\/a>, bread<\/a>, more bread<\/a> and what must be the world’s simplest to make biscuits<\/a>. Although, judging from that recipe, I’m not going to run and try those biscuits. The bread ones look very interesting though.<\/p>\n

Here are some other interesting ones:<\/p>\n