PROJECT Kiriboshi Daikon

Mar 16, 2024 | Kitchen PROJECTS, Year-Round

Cooking with KIRIBOSHI DAIKON in your kitchen.

This versatile ingredient can be used in soups, pickles, rice dishes and a variety of sides, too. Here are a few recipes to get you started:

Kogane Meshi, a takikomi-style rice dish

Granny’s Sun-Dried Radish, a stirfry-style side dish

Hari Hari-Zuké, a gingery sun-dried radish pickle
(KANSHA, Ten Speed Press), pg. 204

Packages of kiriboshi daikon are available outside Japan in most Asian groceries. It is best to buy sun-dried product, tenpi-boshi, rather than chemically dried radish so that the soaking liquid can be used as a stock. Check labels carefully. Or, download instructions to make your own  Home-Made Kiriboshi Daikon.

 

Want to know more about kiriboshi daikon? Check out the KITCHEN CULTURE blog

If you haven’t yet read my MARCH 2024 newsletter about kiriboshi daikon, check it out.

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