Nonas Japanese Ume Dressing Food

This is one of my many Japanese-style salad dressings I created to satisfy my taste. Ume(boshi) is a favored taste addition in many Japanese cooking. It shows up in cakes, cookies, snacks, mochi, salads, beverages, soups, with pork, chicken and fish, and of course dressing. You can find umeboshi in Japanese markets in refrigerated section. Ume is often called plum or pickled plums, however it is much closer to apricots. You can find ume trees in US now. Ume is not tasty fresh and must be either pickled or preserved.

Provided by rinshinomori

Categories     Side Dish     Sauces and Condiments Recipes     Salad Dressing Recipes

Time 15m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 132.9 calories, Carbohydrate 1.8 g, Fat 14.2 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 0.3 g, SaturatedFat 2.2 g, Sodium 473.4 mg, Sugar 0.8 g

This is one of my many Japanese-style salad dressings I created to satisfy my taste. Ume(boshi) is a favored taste addition in many Japanese cooking. It shows up in cakes, cookies, snacks, mochi, salads, beverages, soups, with pork, chicken and fish, and of course dressing. You can find umeboshi in Japanese markets in refrigerated section. Ume is often called plum or pickled plums, however it is much closer to apricots. You can find ume trees in US now. Ume is not tasty fresh and must be either pickled or preserved.

Provided by rinshinomori

Categories     Salad Dressings

Time 15m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 132.9 calories, Carbohydrate 1.8 g, Fat 14.2 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 0.3 g, SaturatedFat 2.2 g, Sodium 473.4 mg, Sugar 0.8 g

My Dad is very fond of a creamy sesame dressing found in Japanese restaurant near him and has asked me if I can come up with something close to it. I tasted it, tasted it, and tasted it and came to a conclusion that it's a commercial based salad dressing with raw eggs, very sharp vinegar taste reminiscent of kewpie mayonnaise taste and something else I could not pinpoint. That salad dressing is good, but when you taste it by itself, I realize there were lots of stablizers, preservatives, and chemical taste that I did not like. But still, I had to come up with something for Dad because he was paying $5 for a cup of this dressing and he was going through it quickly. This is my rendition and I think much tastier one that I am proud of. You can easily grind roasted sesame seeds in coffee grinder for 1 second or you can mortar and pestle. It should only be partially ground

Provided by Rinshinomori

Categories     Salad Dressings

Time 15m

Yield 20 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 31.9, Fat 2.4, SaturatedFat 0.3, Cholesterol 1.5, Sodium 166.8, Carbohydrate 2.4, Fiber 0.1, Sugar 1.1, Protein 0.3

I'm always tinkering and creating new Japanese salad dressing. This is one them I created 7-8 years ago and very tasty. Umeboshi can be found in Japanese markets in the refrigerated section. It is often called pickled plums. However, ume is closer to small apricots. The size range from dime to 50 cent piece. Smaller dime sized umeboshi is usually very crunchy and should not be used for this recipe as there is not enough fruit and taste is lacking and briny. Ume flavor is very, very popular in Japanese cooking. You can find ume confection, ume rice crackers, ume candy, ume ice cream, ume pork chops, ume drinks, ume in various salad dishes, and of course, ume dressing like this. Umeboshi is loved by Japanese as much as tea and rice.

Provided by Rinshinomori

Categories     Salad Dressings

Time 15m

Yield 1 cup

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients