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What is the blessing recited on tempeh?


As far as I know, tempeh is made primarily of soybeans molded into a solid homogeneous mass where the individual bean is no longer clearly identifiable. The blessing therefore becomes Shehakol, the blessing made on not recognizably organic items.

Needless to say, as tempeh is a cooked product, you must ascertain that it has proper kosher certification.

I hope that I've been helpful today.

Yours truly,

Rabbi Menachem Posner

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Posted: July 30, 2009
Tempeh is made of a "solid mass" but the beans are identifiable. Would that not, therefore, require an adamah bracha?
Posted By Treine, Baltimore, MD



 


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