Japanese

Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables)

Name: Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 Japanese eggplants; 1 cucumber; 6 leaves shiso; 1 tbsp salt; 1 tbsp rice vinegar

Yuki @yuki_1993

Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables) 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.

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

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 Japanese eggplants
1 cucumber
6 leaves shiso
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp rice vinegar

How to cook it

Cut the eggplant and cucumber into small dice and shred the shiso leaves.
Toss the vegetables with the salt, press with a light weight, and let sit 15 minutes.
Squeeze out the liquid, then toss with the shiso and rice vinegar.
Chill briefly before serving.

Watch how to cook Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables)

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

【乳酸菌たっぷり！】発酵しば漬けのレシピ・作り方 Play the video

Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables), 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. Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables)
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: 30 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 600 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

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

When to cook it

Shiba-zuke (Purple Shiso Pickled Vegetables) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.