Tari

Tari is a fermented savory condiment, basically a type of miso, made from fermenting sunflower oilcakes with pearled barley inoculated with kōji and packed with a lot of salt. It is used as a base for other condiments or added to the preparation of various dishes.

Using the oilcakes instead of sunflower seeds directly prevents the high oil content from going rancid during fermentation.

Tari can be made with Cucurbita seed oilcakes instead, via a similar process. On the more subtropical boats, a version of tari is made with peanut oilcakes.

tari means ‘to get packed, to get stuffed into’, referring to the process of tightly packing layers of oilcakes and salt into the fermentation vessel.

Like many spray/load-type verbs in Otseqon, the verb allows either the container being filled or the material used to fill as the undergoer-like argument. Accordingly the intransitive verb means either ‘to get stuffed into’ or ‘to get full’, and the transitive verb allows two coding frames, one with the container as the direct object and material marked with the oblique preposition or vice-versa. Semantically this depends on which is more affected by the action: with the material as the direct object it means ‘to stuff into’ and entails that there is a specified (or at least specifiable) amount of material but does not require that the container is completely filled, while the opposite coding frame means something like ‘to fill up leaving no gaps’ and entails that the container is completely filled and implies that there is some indefinitely large amount of material available for filling.