Sweet Pickled Ginger, Gari

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Hiroko's Blog, Recipes

Here is the sweet pickled ginger, gari, recipe. Please make sure that you use young ginger, so that they turn to lovely pink color. Norwich Meadows Farm has gorgeous young ginger. www.NorwichMeadowsFarm.com.     Gari Recipe (Adopted from The Sushi Experience) 14 ounces young ginger 1/2 cup rice vinegar 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons salt Clean the young ginger with a hard brush. Cut the ginger lengthwise into paper-thin slices. Mix the rice vinegar, 1/4...

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Make Your Own No-Chemical-Added Pink Gari, Pickled Ginger

Posted on Sep 17, 2013 in Hiroko's Blog

Zaid recently brought to Union Square Greenmarket his first, successful harvest of young ginger, shinshoga. Shinshoga, is a young ginger as opposed to old ginger, whose skin is light brown, flesh is yellow in color, and texture is firm & stingy. Rhizome of young ginger is moist, crisp and smooth. The color of its skin and flesh are white. This is the ginger which we use to make gari, pickled ginger, which accompanies sushi and sashimi dishes at Japanese restaurants....

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