Basic Japanese Cuisine
Components
Gari
ガリ · pickled ginger
New ginger
g
350
g
new (young) ginger
200
cc
water
100
cc
vinegar
50
g
sugar
10
g
salt
Young ginger; old ginger is spicier and harder. Peel with a spoon; trim the pink offshoots and dry ends.
Slice parallel to the fibres, 1 mm.
3% salt water, 10 min.
Drain; boil in plain water 5 min (counted from the return to the boil).
Marinate in the vinegar liquid.
Keeps 1 month in water, 1 year in vinegar.
Same method works with green papaya / palm heart.
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Brines
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Box sushi