Japanese
Takuan (Pickled Daikon)
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Takuan (Pickled Daikon) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch, dinner, and breakfast. 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.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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This is a store-bought pickle, not a from-scratch recipe: honest weekday cooking means opening the package rather than pretending to age it yourself.
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Slice the takuan into thin rounds.
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Arrange on a small plate and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Watch how to cook Takuan (Pickled Daikon)
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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 Takuan (Pickled Daikon), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Takuan (Pickled Daikon) carries sesame. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Beni Shoga (Red Pickled Ginger) |
| 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
- 10 kcal
- Protein
- 0 g
- Carbs
- 3 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 450 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Takuan (Pickled Daikon) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch, dinner, and breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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