About Japanese Food: How to Make Pickled Ginger

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Japanese Food Japanese Food Traditional Dishes Basics Easy Meals From Setsuko Yoshizuka, your Guide to Japanese Food Hi everyone. It's the season for making pickled ginger. I bought 4 lb of fresh ginger roots last weekend and made a large container full of pickled ginger. Let's Make Pickled Ginger Do you make pickled ginger at home? It's best to use young ginger to make pickled ginger so that ginger change its color to light pink when pickled. Young ginger roots are juicy and easy to slice thinly also. How to Make Pickled Ginger Japanese Recipe of the Week: Ikameshi Ikameshi literally means squid rice in Japanese. Squid are stuffed with glutinous rice and are simmered in sweet soy sauce flavored soup. I like the chewy texture of sticky rice in ikameshi. Ikameshi Recipe Mabo-don As "don" means rice bowls in Japanese cuisine, mabo-don is a rice bowl topped with mabo tofu (mapo tofu) which is a spicy Chinese Szechuan dish. Japanese home cooked mabo tofu is usually less spicy than Szechuan mapo tofu. Even if you're not particularly fond of spicy food, I think you enjoy this rice bowl. Mabo Tofu Rice Bowl Japanese Rice Bowl Recipes There are many kinds of rice bowls recipes - includes beef bowl and chicken and egg rice bowl. Rice Bowl Recipes Japanese Food Ads Food Menus Indian Food Recipe Best Japanese Food Japan Food Traditional Food Featured Articles Japanese Appetizers Japanese Salad & Salad Dressing Japanese Sauce & Japanese Seasoning Japanese Food Pictures Japanese Drinks & Japanese Tea Japanese Holiday Food and Traditional Japanese Food   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More> This newsletter is written by: Setsuko Yoshizuka Japanese Food Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Japanese Food newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Must Reads Introduction to Sushi Japanese Dessert Recipes Japanese Noodle Dishes Cooking Tempura Japanese Dashi Advertisement