Do you know the SANSHOU, Japanese pepper or have you had it before??:)
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I tried cooking it last night as my first time!
I have really enjoyed my "country side cooking's journey" since we have moved to Doshi village by the way, for example,, I cooked "mountain (wild eatable) veggies" and "fresh bamboo shoots" in this spring:)
We had not been able to get those foodstuff as "fresh" from city side ..
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Our neighbor has a SANSHOU tree and they gave peppers to us after harvest!
I made,, "Tsukudani" of the SANSHOU which is I think most popular cooking style of Japanese pepper in Japan.
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- Boiling it 5 - 7 minutes by salty water, I did it 7 minutes!
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2. Putting it in cold water 3 hours - 1 night, and better to change the water sometimes.
I did it 3 hours and changed the water 3 times,, (I "chotto" (a bit) regret that might be better to be done longer than 3 hours coz the cooked peppers have still super strong spicy taste after chewing it now..x( haha)
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3. Boiling down in boiled sugar & soy sauce until the liquid has gone, taking around 15 minutes with small gas :)
The "Tsukudani" is boiling down in sugar and soy sauce normally ;)
Proper recipe has mentioned putting cooking Sake and "Mirin" as well,
But I normally don't use those so I boiled it down with 80 - 100ml water instead, sugar and soy sauce!
(FYI. Basic amount for 100g of the peppers,
2 spoons of the each Sake and Mirin + 1 spoon of sugar + 2 spoons of soy sauce)
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Many Japanese prefer to eat these kind of strong tasted items with rice which is just cooked simply..☆
But now, looks many people arrange it to pasta, for baked fishes,, etc..!
Thank you for reading and "ITADAKIMASU !!" ;)