Umeboshi- Japanese pickled plums / salt-preserved plums
Umeboshi- Japanese pickled plums / salt-preserved plums

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Japanese pickled plums is salt-preserved food. Making homemade umeboshi in Japan is always with feeling the change of the seasons. Re: Homemade Umeboshi (Japanese salty pickled plums).

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook umeboshi- japanese pickled plums / salt-preserved plums using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Umeboshi- Japanese pickled plums / salt-preserved plums:
  1. Get 2 kg ripe plums
  2. Get 300 g salt
  3. Make ready 300 g Red shiso leaves (if you have)
  4. Get 2 Tbs salt

Umeboshi, Japanese salted plums, are a delicacy often enjoyed with rice. Here's a traditional method for making them. This recipe is reprinted with permission from Preserving the Japanese Way: Traditions of Salting, Fermenting, and Pickling for the Modern Kitchen by Nancy Singleton Hachisu. Umeboshi plums have a long history, and have been used over thousands of years to cure dysentery, fight typhoid fever, and help with food poisoning.

Steps to make Umeboshi- Japanese pickled plums / salt-preserved plums:
  1. Wash plums gently, remove hulls with a bamboo stick, and dry well with paper towels one by one. Please make sure the plums are dried well otherwise the moisture of plums will cause growing mold in the jar.
  2. Place the plums in a clean jar, add the salt and mix well with a sanitized spatula or your hands with gloves on to make sure that inside of the jar is kept clean. Put plastic wrap over the plums (making it stick to the surface of the plums) and put a drop lid or flat plate on the plastic wrap. Then put 4kg weight on the plate. A few days later, you will see some quantity of water may be released from the plums, then reduce the weight to 2 kg. Leave it for a week in cool, dark place.
  3. One week later, you will see a lot of water released from the plum and find red shiso begins on the market.Remove the stems from the red shiso and wash it. Place the leaves into a bowl, add of salt and rub it with your hands and squeezing the leaves to remove any moisture. Do the same thing again with the last salt.
  4. Place the leaves into a clean bowl, add 1 cup of plum juice from the jar, mix well and put it back on top of plums in the jar. Put plastic wrap over it again (making the wrap stick to the surface of the shiso leaves) and put back the drop rid or flat plate on. No need to put the weight this time. If the jar has it's own lid, put the lid on.
  5. When the rainy season is over (a few weeks later from the red shiso is added to the jar), take all the plums and the red shiso leaves out from the jar, place them onto sieves or flat strainer and let them spread over sieves in a single layer. Let them sun dry, from a few hours, up to 3 days.
  6. Please keep the liquid. we call it ume-zu(plum vinegar) and you can use it for cooking as you use vinegar for your cooking.
  7. The dried plums should be kept in a sanitized jar with lid and will remain good for many years. Put the dried shiso leaves in a food processor and make it into coarse powder, then it'll be delicious furikake seasonings. (Furikake is toppings for rice. You can sprinkle furikake on your rice)

Japanese samurai soldiers took umeboshi with them while going to battle, because the fruit was preserved and able to be stored for an indefinite amount. Ume (梅) or umeboshi (梅干し) is Japanese salted plums or Japanese pickled plums. It is a popular kind of Japanese pickles (Tsukemono) and they are extremely sour and salty. We usually serve umeboshi with rice or rice balls (onigiri). Among all kinds of umeboshi, Nanko Plums (南高梅 なんこ.

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