Soybean & Tofu Foods

Soybean is one of A & A Cooking’s broadest ingredient chains. It supports cooked ingredients, drinks, tofu, fermentation, sauces, stir fries, glazes, noodles, fried Rice, and Rice bowls.

This page focuses on the food side of that chain. Crop and ingredient foundations remain on Rice & Soybean, while fermentation mechanics are documented under Fermentation & Preservation and the Fermentation Crock.

Early Soybean processing

Confirmed processed Soybean items include:

ID	Display name	Role
`soybean_roasted`	Roasted Soybean	Cooked Soybean food
`soybean_puree`	Soybean Puree	Processing intermediate
`soybean_milk`	Soy Milk	Drink and production ingredient
`soybean_milk_sweet`	Sweet Soy Milk	Sweetened drink

Soybean Puree and Soy Milk demonstrate how the crop can move through processing stations before becoming either a finished consumable or a prerequisite for another recipe.

Tofu

The Soybean chain includes:

Item ID	Display name	Role
`soybean_tofu_fresh`	Fresh Tofu	Tofu intermediate
`soybean_tofu_seared`	Seared Tofu	Finished tofu side

Fresh Tofu is made from Soy Milk and Apple Vinegar in the Saucepan. Tofu then feeds into later dishes, including soybean_tofu_stir_fry_pickled.

Soybean stir fries

The established stir fry branch includes:

ID	Display name
`soybean_stir_fry_mushroom`	Mushroom Soybean Stir Fry
`soybean_stir_fry_chicken`	Chicken Soybean Stir Fry
`soybean_tofu_stir_fry_pickled`	Pickled Tofu Stir Fry

These recipes connect Soybean and tofu with the direct cooking systems covered under Stir Fries & Seared Foods and the Wok.

Fermented Soybean chain

The established fermentation branch includes:

Fermented Soybeans
Soy Sauce Mash
Soy Sauce
soybean_sauce_sweet (Sweet Soy Glaze)

Their registered item IDs are available in the Complete Content Index, and their exact recipes are listed in the Complete Recipe Index.

The fermentation branch is important because its outputs become prerequisites for multiple recipe families instead of remaining isolated preserved foods.

Soy glazed foods

The Sweet Soy Glaze branch includes two glazed protein dishes:

ID	Display name
`chicken_glazed_soy_sauce`	Soy Glazed Chicken
`salmon_glazed_soy_sauce`	Soy Glazed Salmon

These recipes depend on the Soy Sauce branch while belonging to the broader cooked protein catalog.

Soy Sauce across other recipe families

Soybean processing also feeds into several pages elsewhere in the catalog:

rice_fried_chicken_soy_sauce (Chicken Soy Fried Rice)
rice_fried_beef_soy_sauce (Beef Soy Fried Rice)
wheat_noodles_stir_fry_chicken_soy_sauce (Chicken Soy Noodle Stir Fry)
wheat_noodles_stir_fry_beef_soy_sauce (Beef Soy Noodle Stir Fry)
rice_bowl_chicken_soy_sauce (Soy Chicken Rice Bowl)
rice_bowl_salmon_soy_sauce (Soy Salmon Rice Bowl)

See Rice Dishes & Bowls and Pasta & Noodles for those finished meal groups.

Recipe Book behavior

The Soybean chain is a strong example of Recipe Book prerequisites. A final dish can depend on an earlier Soybean preparation, a fermented product, cooked Rice or noodles, and another prepared ingredient. The preparation planner can represent those dependencies instead of treating the final dish as a single isolated recipe.

Exact recipe reference

See Complete Recipe Index for quantities, fermentation times, temperatures, actions, and station requirements throughout the Soybean chain.