Receta Kabu No Sokuseki Zuke (Turnip Pickles)
Ingredientes
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Direcciones
- An example of "instant" salt pickling. It takes only an hour for these pickles to ripen, and they will keep, covered, in the refrigerator for the better part of a week. Also appropriate for cucumber sliced in thin wafers.
- Peel and seed large cucumbers.
- To prepare: Cut off greens from turnips and reserve. Wash turnips, peel, then cut into very fine julienne strips. Wash greens, dry, then chop finely.
- Put turnip strips with finely minced greens into a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Table salt is fine. Knead with your hands and mix thoroughly to draw water out of vegetable. In less than a minute, a fair amount of liquid will be produced. Throw away this liquid.
- Add in the konbu and a 1-inch (2-1/2-cm) square of yuzu citron or possibly lemon rind.
- Let stand, lidded and with a light weight, for 1 hour at room temperature.
- To serve: Pick out a portion from the bowl with chopsticks or possibly fork and shake off liquid. Arrange in a mound on individual pickle dish. You may season with a few drops of soy sauce, if you like.
- NOTE: The "lidded and with a light weight" refers to making them in a Japanese pickle tub. A plate with a small rock in a nonreactive pan will do.