“What the? It’s delicious!” In the manga ”そもそもウチには芝生がない” (Somo somo uchi niha shibafu ga nai) Keiko makes these pickles and gets a lot of praise (Vol.8 Chap.75).
I love Takuan, the usually yellow coloured radish pickles, so I tried it myself; and yes, it’s both super easy to make and lovely with rice!
Ingredients
- Daikon radish, sliced … 150g
- Salt … 2 tsp
- Sugar … 2 tbsp
- Vinegar … 1 tsp (or 2tsp to make it a lil sour)
Optionally add in a de-seeded chili pepper or sea kelp.
How to make
- Place all ingredients in a seal-able container.
- Rest it in the fridge overnight (or 2 nights to make them wrinkly and extra tasty).
I use my Hario pickling glass jar, but in the manga they put it in a zip lock bag and give it a squeeze.
Kei 😄
I can easily make a meal out of these just by adding rice and soup.
The manga that this recipe appears in is below. Here they called it “Tou shibori daikon” (sugar squeezed radish). The recipe also appears in Wakakoya blog referencing this manga.
Comments (1)
John Fergusonsays:
December 29, 2025 at 9:20 amI have a Hario glass salting jar too, it wasn’t obvious from the recipe but I may be wrong, the picture looks like the daikon was mixed with the salt and sugar a bit to cover it too? I’m also experimenting with more vinegar – could be a bad idea but trying. For anyone who likes this recipe I had tried some carrot and cauliflower with the proportions here. But I learned that carrot and cauliflower maybe need more salt or be broken down more?
Thanks for posting the recipes that work with Hario jar.