Thanks to persistently following the family's traditional profession of making turmeric beans, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thoan and her husband in Dong Tao Dong village, Dong Tao commune (Khái Chau) have had an increasingly prosperous life and are able to take care of their children. Eat, study and become a person....
Thanks to persistently following the family's traditional profession of making turmeric beans, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thoan and her husband in Dong Tao Dong village, Dong Tao commune (Khái Chau) have had an increasingly prosperous life and are able to take care of their children. Eat, study and become a person....
Although it is a traditional profession for the family, when starting the profession, Ms. Thoan and her husband also encountered some difficulties when many batches of beans had a sour smell, were not smooth and were hard. Overcoming difficulties, she and her husband worked, learned from experience and adjusted the ingredients until they created the desired soft, golden turmeric beans.
According to Ms. Thoan, bean making is not seasonal, it can be done all year round; The main raw material is soybeans available inside and outside the province. To make delicious beans, from choosing the beans to making the finished product, every step is important, requiring care, meticulousness and cleanliness. In the process of grinding soybean seeds, Ms. Thoan's family adds a few slices of fresh turmeric in proportion, ensuring the beans have a beautiful color while still retaining the characteristic aroma and fat of the beans, not being overwhelmed by the smell of turmeric.
Ms. Thoan added that, over the past 5 years, the bean making profession has gone from being completely manual to having many steps replaced by mechanical equipment, making it less difficult, such as: Grinding beans with a machine has helped completely grind the beans. soy sauce, reducing the need to squeeze by hand; The process of boiling beans is also replaced by an electric boiler, replacing manual boiling with charcoal or wood stoves. However, some steps that require meticulousness and ingenuity to improve the quality of turmeric bean products are still done by hand by her family such as: Whipping sour juice, wrapping, pressing...
Currently, her family uses an average of 50kg of soybeans/day to produce about 1.2 quintals of turmeric beans at a selling price of 25,000 VND/kg, with a stable consumer market inside and outside the district. Profit from making turmeric beans reaches about 300 million VND/year.
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