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Japanese shallot




Japanese food curry restaurant

Have you been to the curry restaurant in Japan?So, it is Japanese food curry not Indian curry.Red and a white pickle are put if you go there.Red isfukujinzuke, white is Japanese shallot.They are pickles and all-you-can-eat them.
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Pickles Japanese shallot

In Japanese cooking, pickled Japanese shallots called ‘rakkyo-zuke’.I like Rakkyo-zuke.With Japanese curry rice, generally, no relish is used; if used, Fukujinzuke (sliced vegetables pickled in soy sauce) or scallions pickled in sweetened vinegar are garnished in general.
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refer to Beauty and food blog

Effective

Japanese shallot is rich in a water soluble dietary fiber, it is effective as a laxative.And Japanese shallot is effective in preventing osteoporosis.In Okinawa Prefecture, they have smaller and thinner kind of Japanese leek compared to the common variety, which is called ‘Shima-rakkyo’ (Okinawan shallots) or ‘Daccho.’.]
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refer to Coco blog

Takuan




Shojin ryori

Tempura, sushi, sukiyaki are Japanese food.Shojin ryori is King of the Japanese food in that.Shijin ryori is Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Natural taste of the vegetables are well brought out. And they are made without guise.Takuan is eaten frequently in Shojin ryori.Takuan is pickled radish.Dried Japanese radishes are pickled in rice and salt.
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Takuan diet

My friend continued eating a menu (rice, Takuan, miso soup) and lost 5 kg in one month.It is the eating habits like the old priest.It is “Shojin” definitely.However, Takuan doesn’t contains abundant nutrition.Besides, the people having high blood pressure should not eat it because salt is abundant.Two slices are just right per day.
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Photo by (c)Tomo.Yun

Canned Takuan

Originally Takuan is preservation food.About 300 years ago, the priest Mr.Takuan devised Takuan to preserve a Japanese radish.And, in the present age, it was canned so that is preserved during a longer period.
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Nukaduke




Diet Japanese food

Nukaduke is Japanese Pickles.It is vegetables that have been pickled in salted rice bran.The salted rice bran is called ‘Nukadoko’ in Japan.”Nukadoko” is like a paste of seasoner. It can’t eat itself but add vegetable great flavor.It’s very simple but it produce very pleasant taste!
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Cucumber Nukoduke

An enzyme breaking down fat is included in Cucumber Nukoduke.This is effective for dieting just to eat it.Japanese comedian reduced the weight by this diet effect 4.5 kg.Such is the power of Nukaduke.Nukaduke is a representative of the Japanese food.
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Strong-smelling

But nukaduke has an unpleasant point.It is Strong-smelling.The representative of Strong-smelling by Japanese food is Natto, Kusaya, Nukaduke.When we make nukaduke, we must mix nukadoko by hand every morning.Strong-smelling is full every morning in the room.It is a smell of the morning in Japan.
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refer to Sadako’s Pickled Factory