Japanese

Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger)

Name: Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1/2 lb fresh ginger; 1/2 cup rice vinegar; 3 tbsp sugar; 1 tsp salt

Kenji @kenji_notebook

Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Low sodium Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1/2 lb fresh ginger
1/2 cup rice vinegar
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Peel the ginger and slice it paper-thin against the grain.
Blanch the ginger in boiling water 1 minute, then drain.
Warm the rice vinegar, sugar, and salt together until dissolved.
Pour the vinegar mixture over the ginger and let cool, then chill at least 2 hours before serving.

Watch how to cook Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Buri Daikon (Yellowtail and Daikon Simmer)
  
  30 min
Something to sip
- Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
  
  15 min
The cooked vegetable
- Agedashi Tofu (Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce)
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 40 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 9 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 8 g
Sodium: 230 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Gari (Homemade Sweet Pickled Ginger) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.