Japanese Pickles(漬け物)

☆Japanese Pickles(漬け物) ☆

Good Morning Everyone, hope you are having a great weekend or had a great weekend.  Another week to go and Christmas coming very soon and the end of the 2009 year.  How things fly by when your having fun I guess.

Today’s Japanese Cooking Style is called Japanese Pickles or 漬け物 in Japanese.  This is like a tradition food of Japanese, you can find this any where in Japan and maybe as well in your area in Oriental Shops.  This is just one of many style of Japanese Pickles.  Very easy to make and very tasty too. Enjoy.

Now to see what we need to make our Japanese Pickles Recipe.

Ingredients:

☆ 1 cucmber

☆ 1 carrot

☆ 4-5 leaves cabbage

☆ 1 clove ginger

☆ 1 tsp salt

☆ 1/2 tsp sugar

☆ 1 tbsp rice vinegar

Direction:

1. Cut the cucmber into thinly slice, peel the carrot and cut into 4㎝ lengths thinly slice, cut the cabbage into bite-size and cut the ginger into strips.

2. Place the cucumber, carrot, cabbage and ginger in container and mix. Splinkle the salt, sugar, and rice vinegar on the vegetable, put a plate on  top and weight it down with something heavy like a paperweight or large food can. Leave for least 10 hours- over night.

3 Before serving , squeeze out any moisture using your hands. Place in small dish and drizzle some soy sauce or ponzu soy sauce over top to taste.

This Recipes Serves 4 people. There you have it. Hope you enjoy this, until next time let’s cook together. 次回は一緒に作りましょう～^^/~~ PS: If you enjoy my Daily recipe subscribe to my RSS Feed and I also have available my first e-Book, which FREE to you for coming by and reading my Japanese CookingRecipes. Thank you..

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