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ONLINE Tofu and Soy Milk Making Master Class

16 Jun 2020 (Tue)
18:00 120 minutes
£25 per person

Do you want to stay healthy by making your own soy milk, tofu and make mochi with tofu pulp?

In this class you will make fresh soy milk and tofu from dry soybeans in the most authentic Japanese method. An amenable and versatile, light enough to be paired with a variety of ingredients and seasoning. Homemade tofu is the most elegant and delicate of flavours, yet it can go happily with much bolder characters like ginger, garlic, and chilli.

During the class you will learn the following:

*How to make fresh soy milk from scratch
*How to make Japanese style fresh tofu
*How to make soybean pulp mochi

Your shopping list - Please make sure you have the following prior to the lesson. The full shopping list, recipes, and pre class instruction will be sent to you prior to the class. You will need to wash and soak the soybeans in water in the morning of the lesson.

200g dried soy beans
8g food grade epsom salt
100g potato starch (or katakuriko)
60ml soy sauce
60ml mirin
1 tablespoon sugar
2 sheets of nori seaweed

Tools

• Large pot 5L+
• Large bowl + medium bowl
• Wooden spatula + Silicon spatula
• Food processor or blender
• Large sieve + Small to medium sieve
• Small glass + teaspoon
• White tea towel
• Ladle

Useful but not essential
• Waterproof/heat resistant kitchen/oven glove
• Kitchen thermometer

Please contact the instructor below for any questions.
Akemi@sozai.co.uk

Vegetarian Vegan Online

Instructor

Akemi Yokoyama

(340 reviews)

Akemi Yokoyama has a background in Japanese food provenance, nurtured from her Father, who along with his family foraged and fished throughout the Island of Hokkaido. She is now a Japanese food specialist, chef, presenter and writer based in London. Her regular Japanese cookery classes at Sozai have received very favourable reviews in the UK’s national media, including Time Out and The Telegraph. She has also appeared on the popular TV programmes, C4’s Sunday Brunch and CBBC's Saturday Mash-Up, teaching the presenters how to make sushi. She is also an in demand private chef. She has cooked for celebrities including Tina Turner and Rina Sawayama.

She demonstrates authentic Japanese cooking in the UK and Europe at many diverse events, and she regularly works with the Japanese government’s related organizations promoting Japanese cuisine and sake to the media and public. Her latest culinary interests include all aspects of fermentation and flavour experimentation across multiple food cultures. .

Akemi is a member of the Japanese Culinary Academy UK, is a certified miso sommelier. She has judged Sake category at International Wine Challenge in 2020/2021/2022/2024.


by Anna
Black Cod, Tempura and Japanese Home Cooking
21 Apr 2025
Brilliant cooking class

This was the second Sozai cooking class I have done with Akemi. Both were brilliant. Akemi is extremely knowledgeable about Japanese food, and I left both classes with lots of new information about Japanese food.

We made loads of delicious food, most of which we ate at the end of the class but we also got additional to take home. I would definitely recommend this class. The recipes are very approachable but still tasty, and I'm excited to try and replicate them at home. In three hours we managed to cook five dishes, which was really impressive.

by Irina
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24 Mar 2025
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I used to love sushi before going to class, but now I'm fully obsessed. I learnt a lot of new ways to prepare sushi. And the teacher was incredibly polite and helpful, explaining everything with great commitment. It was unthinkable that you couldn't understand something! If you don't know what to give for your close friends or family, this is the greatest gift to attend the roll & roll sushi class.

by Mikulas
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Mr

Cooking Ramen with Akemi was brilliant! We loved the insights and the final Ramen we cooked was delicious. The class size and atmosphere was perfect.