Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, nagaimo pickled with wasabi and shio-koji. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Imbue an array of vegetables with the sweet and salty richness of shio kōji, and enjoy the probiotic benefits of traditional Japanese foods. The kōji is a very popular cooking ingredient for making shio kōji and soy sauce kōji that can be used as a pickling agent, marinade. Shio koji is a going through a major boom in Japan right now.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have nagaimo pickled with wasabi and shio-koji using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nagaimo Pickled with Wasabi and Shio-Koji:
- Make ready 300 grams Nagaimo
- Make ready 3 tbsp Shio-koji
- Prepare 5 grams Grated wasabi
- Take 1 Bonito flakes
The magic condiment I've used today is Shio Koji (塩麴), which brings out a nice umami flavor of the dishes. A century-old ingredient used in Japan to make soy sauce, sake, and miso, Shio Koji is now a favorite seasoning for marinades, salad dressings, and pickles. Peel a nagaimo (chinese yam) and grate. Wrap it with paper towel to prevent it from slipping.
Instructions to make Nagaimo Pickled with Wasabi and Shio-Koji:
- Peel the nagaimo and cut into 5-6 cm long, 7-8 mm thick matchsticks.
- Put the nagaimo sticks from Step 1 into a resealable bag with shio-koji and wasabi, and work in the shio-koji and wasabi into the nagaimo by rubbing the contents from the outside of the bag. Store in the refrigerator for 1/2 a day to a full day for a perfect finish.
- Sprinkle on some bonito flakes, and serve.
At Japanese Specialty store also sells a great product called The grated nagaimo is known as tororo (in Japanese). In tororo udon/soba, the tororo is mixed with other ingredients that typically include tsuyu. "Shio Koji (塩麹)" is a seasoning paste that became a topic of conversation several years ago in Japan and now has become a seasoning commonly used When it comes to the Japanese pickle made with Shio Koji, the most common vegetable prepared for it is cucumber. Since in fact I have the pickled. Shio Koji can break down the starch and protein contained in the ingredients to bring out the umami and sweetness to make the food delicious. We can use Shio Koji to marinate meat, fish, to make pickled vegetables and dressing.
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