Pon ye gyi

*Pon ye gyi*
	Pon ye gyi
Alternative names	pone yay gyi, pone ye gyi
Type	Fermented bean paste
Place of origin	Myanmar (Burma)
Associated cuisine	Burmese cuisine
Main ingredients	Macrotyloma uniflorum and other beans

Pon ye gyi (Burmese: ပုန်းရည်ကြီး, Burmese pronunciation: [póʊɴjèd͡ʑí]; also spelt pone yay gyi and pone ye gyi) is a fermented bean paste commonly used as a condiment or marinade in Burmese cuisine, especially in pork and fish dishes.^[1]^[2] Pon ye gyi is traditionally made from horse gram beans, alongside other beans.

Some sites are incorrect in saying that the cooked seeds are pounded with salt and fermented for about 12 hours into a product similar to soya bean sauce producing a viscous paste with a reddish brown colour.

To produce the paste, the horse gram seeds are rinsed and boiled. The water from boiling the seeds are saved and reduced over several hours, until a thick consistency is formed. The cooked seeds are removed and saved for use as animal feed. It seems that during the reduction stage salt is added (confirmation required). Once satisfactory thickness is achieved, the paste is removed from heat, cooled and dried for some time - possibly 12 hours. Sufficiently dried paste is then packaged.

It is consumed as a side-dish all over Myanmar(2019^[3]). The towns of Bagan,^[4] Nyaung U and Sale, and Myingyan in the country's central Dry Zone are major producers of this product.^[5]

References

^ "Pork Curry with Pone-Yay-Gyi". Wutyee Food House. 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
^ Phyo (23 June 2014). "Beans from Bagan". Myanmar Times.
^ Aye MM, Aung NN, Ni KT (2019). "STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS OF PROCESSED POONYIGYI FROM HORSE GRAM BEANS" (PDF). Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science. XVII (1B).
^ Ng, Brady (4 May 2015). "This Bean Curd Paste Is the Black Gold of Burma". Munchies. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
^ "အထက်အညာက ပုန်းရည်ကြီး". MyFood (in Burmese). 2016-07-09. Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-04-17.

[1] "Pork Curry with Pone-Yay-Gyi". Wutyee Food House. 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2017-04-17.

[2] Phyo (23 June 2014). "Beans from Bagan". Myanmar Times.

[3] Aye MM, Aung NN, Ni KT (2019). "STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS OF PROCESSED POONYIGYI FROM HORSE GRAM BEANS" (PDF). Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science. XVII (1B).

[4] Ng, Brady (4 May 2015). "This Bean Curd Paste Is the Black Gold of Burma". Munchies. Retrieved 2017-04-17.

[5] "အထက်အညာက ပုန်းရည်ကြီး". MyFood (in Burmese). 2016-07-09. Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-04-17.

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