What is that pink pickled stuff Zankou Chicken gives you and how do you make it?!
What is that pink pickled stuff Zankou Chicken gives you and how do you make it?
I love that stuff!!
Answers:
Pickled Ginger
Ingredients:
2 large ginger roots
1 cup rice wine vinegar
5-7 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Prep:
Peel the ginger root. Cut the ginger into medium-sized pieces and salt it. Leave the ginger in a bowl for 30 min. Put the ginger into a jar. Mix rice vinegar and sugar in a pan and bring to a boil. Pour the hot mixture of vinegar and sugar on the ginger.
Cool, then cover with a lid and place in the refrigerator. In a week, the ginger change its color to light pink. Slice thinly to serve. The pickled ginger lasts about a month in the fridge.
Ginger- usually used as a condiment for sushi and brined in rice wine vinegar.
A recipe can be found here:
http://japanesefood.about.com/od/sushifo...
The pink things at Zankou Chicken are pickled turnips. They are definitely NOT pickled ginger, which is what you traditionally get with sushi.
To make the pickled turnips, you basically have to cut up some turnips, make a brine, and then let them sit (when they actually "pickle") for a while. I found a few links to recipes:
http://www.ummah.net/family/recipes/turn...
http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m0...
By the way, I love Zankou Chicken.
I never eat chicken. It doesn't taste like meat any more, tastes more like cardboard, has too many chemicals added, not to mention water, and hens lead a really cruel life.