gyoja-ninniku (Allium victorialis)
ingredient / ingredient-gyoja-ninniku
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Gyoja-ninniku (Allium victorialis) is an ingredient classified as a sansai in a list of regional crops published by the Tohoku Regional Agricultural Administration Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
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Reading the bitterness
Hokkaido's Kushiro General Subprefectural Bureau's introduction to spring ingredients lists gyoja-ninniku as a sansai used in ohitashi, tempura, and egg-simmered dishes, and characterizes it by its distinctive fragrance. In the Tokachi-region soy-sauce pickling recorded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, it is washed and the tough 「はかま」 (hakama) at the base is removed. Official cooking records trace not only the sansai classification but also which part is trimmed before eating.
For soy-sauce pickling, there is a method of cutting it raw and pickling it, and a method of boiling it in hot water, cooling it in cold water, draining it, and then pickling it. Both are pickled in soy sauce, mirin, and dashi stock for at least a night. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries page explains that raw gives a crisp texture, while boiling makes it soft and suppresses flavor and pungency. This is a cooking record, not a sensory test comparing bitterness.
Sources for this overview
Checked for this overview: Supports the uses in ohitashi, tempura, and egg-simmered dishes, and the distinctive fragrance, in Kushiro's introduction to spring ingredients.
Checked for this overview: Supports the process, in the Tokachi-region soy-sauce pickling, of washing and removing the tough 「はかま」 (hakama) at the base. / Supports the 2 methods of raw pickling and boiled pickling, cooling and draining, and pickling for at least a night. / Supports the cooking explanation of texture, flavor, and pungency for raw versus boiled, and the limitation that this is not a bitterness sensory test.
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Sensory (1)
Scope: A cooking comparison between raw pickling and boiled pickling, recorded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Note: This is an explanation in a cooking record, not a sensory test involving evaluators, a scale, replication, or figures. Nor is it a comparison of bitterness.
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ingredient-gyoja-ninniku —has_sensory_response→ "The same page records that pickling it raw gives a crisp texture, and pickling it after boiling makes it soft and suppresses flavor and pungency"How processing and cooking change it (2)
Scope: The introduction of gyoja-ninniku in the Kushiro General Subprefectural Bureau's 「春のイチオシ」 (in translation: "Spring's Top Pick")
Note: This is an official ingredient introduction, not a survey that measured usage frequency or the sensory intensity of the fragrance.
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ingredient-gyoja-ninniku —is_used_in→ "Hokkaido's Kushiro General Subprefectural Bureau's introduction to spring ingredients lists ohitashi, tempura, and egg-simmered dishes as ways of eating gyoja-ninniku, and records its distinctive fragrance as a characteristic"Scope: The soy-sauce pickling method for the Hokkaido Tokachi region, recorded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Note: Both are pickled in soy sauce, mirin, and dashi stock for at least a night. The heating time, pickling-liquid formulation, and temperature are not shown.
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ingredient-gyoja-ninniku —is_prepared_by→ "The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' gyoja-ninniku soy-sauce pickling records removing the tough 「はかま」 (hakama) at the base, then a method of pickling it raw and a method of boiling it in hot water, cooling it in cold water, draining it, and then pickling it"Culture (1)
Scope: Appendix 4 of the Misato Town Regional Agricultural Revitalization Council.
Note: Same as above.
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ingredient-gyoja-ninniku —is_listed_as→ "「山菜」 (in translation: "sansai") in the list of regional crops published by the Tohoku Regional Agricultural Administration Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries."