Today the marinated ginger used as seasoning to sushi and other dishes of Japanese cuisine became very popular. Of course, marinated ginger can always be bought in department of supermarket where ingredients for preparation of the Japanese dishes are on sale. However jars with ginger usually quite expensive and at the same time absolutely small. Therefore marinated ginger is better to prepare houses.
It is required to you
- Fresh root of ginger – 0.5 kg
- Rice vinegar for sushi – 200 ml
- Sugar – 4 tablespoons
- Dry pink wine – 4 tablespoons
- Vodka – 2 tablespoons
Instruction
1. Fresh ginger usually is on sale in the market, also recently the ginger root more often can be met on sale in large supermarkets. Examine backs and you will choose among them the youngest and not fibrous.
2. Carefully wash up roots of ginger and throw them for one minute in the boiling water. Then take out them and wait until ginger cools down. Accurately remove the top thin layer of a thin skin.
3. Cut the cleaned ginger roots on the thinnest slices a sharp knife. Instead of a sharp knife you can use the peeler by means of which it turns out to plane quite thin "petals. Put the cut ginger in bank.
4. Heat mix of rice vinegar, sugar, vodka and wine on slow fire. If you near at hand have no pink wine and vodka, can prepare a brine just from vinegar and sugar. The difference isn't so noticeable. If you have no rice vinegar, can replace it with apple or grape cider vinegar. Only in this case put at 1 tablespoon of sugar more. Wait until sugar completely is dissolved, remove a brine from fire and fill in with it ginger.
5. That ginger for sushi gained gentle pink color, use pink rice vinegar for sushi (producers tint its beet juice). If you have only a usual rice vinegar, and you want that marinated ginger became pink color, just add in bank with ginger 1 tablespoon of beet juice or a small slice of crude beet.
6. Close to bank with ginger a cover and well shake it that the brine evenly impregnated all slices of ginger. Inwrap to bank in a towel and leave it so before full cooling.
7. When ginger cools down, deliver to bank in the fridge for 3 days. During this time ginger will well be kept waiting, and it can be eaten. You can store marinated ginger in the fridge within 3 months.