New Japanese Products
Here’s what Cottage Foods has in store for you this week. Try out our new Japanese products you’ll be sure to love. Listed below with flavourings and ways to use them.
Shiso Syrup Concentrated 300ml
The shiso is a Japanese herb from the same species than mint. It is often known as Japanese basil. In Japan, shiso is used in cooking for example with sashimi but also as a natural medicine because it has a lot of medicinal properties.
Flavour: Sweet and spicy, with notes of cinnamon and coriander.
Use: You can dilute this sirup water down with 4-5 volume of fresh water. It goes also very well with alcohol such as beer, shochu or cider. You can add it to your smoothies and pastries (jellys, ganache, granita, bavaroise, cream), put some on top of yogurt or icecream. Mix it with a little bit of olive oil to create a dressing perfect to go with octopus carpaccio.
Green Shiso Dressing 175ml
This sauce is an oil-free dressing with natural rich smell, using plenty of organic green shiso cultivated in Matsuyama (Ehime Prefecture), organic pure rice vinegar made from organic Akitakomachi rice and organic soy sauce.
Sunomono Seasoning Vinegar for Marinades 360ml
Sunomono means «pickled dish», which usually consists of a seaweed salad with cucumber and mackerel. This artisanal rice vinegar is mixed with kombu and is sweetened to accompany sunomonos.
3 Year Old Red Vinegar of Sake Kasu 500ml
The red vinegar is a vinegar produced from sake lees and not from rice. It is more fragrant and round in the mouth than a classic rice vinegar. During the fermentation process, the nutrients contained in the sake lees darken the vinegar and give it a brown colour. This vinegar has been matured for 3 years in a process passed down from generation to generation within the brewery. The term "aka", red in Japanese, also means brown.
Flavour: A brown colour close to that of soy sauce. A straight acidity associated with a beautiful roundness in mouth and a slightly pungent side which remains until the end of the mouth.
Mikan ponzu sauce Japanese mandarin 360ml
Description : This ponzu is made with 30% of mikan juice. Mikan is a Japanese mandarin sweet and almost not sour. Mikan juice is associated with soy sauce, vinegar and other Japanese citrus juices (yuzu, daidai, ogonkan). It gives a ponzu well balanced and sweet, where the mikan sweetness balances the citruses sourness and the powerful taste of the soy sauce.
Flavor : Sweet and fresh with delicious fruity notes.
Use : Very sweet, the mikan ponzu is suitable for children. It is ideal with meat (grilled, Japanese fondue, stew, etc). This ponzu is also perfect to season salads and carpaccio such as jumbo shrimps ones.
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