takuan

alternative takuwan

1. uncountableA type of pickled daikon radish, half-dried before being pickled with rice bran and salt or sugar, typically yellow in color.

   Hot rice with takuan is as common on Japanese tables as bread and butter in America.

   2021, Shizuo Tsuji, Yoshiki Tsuji, Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art, Kodansha USA, →ISBN

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   When daikon is pickled in a paste of salt and rice bran it is called takuan and in this form or in the fresh state it is utilized when available by the majority of Japanese families for every meal.

   1936, Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, Report of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, page 60

   It began to snow heavily once again whilst the two samurai slowly ate their breakfast of rice and takuan radish

   2025, Roald Knutsen, Tales of Enshin, the Reluctant Samurai, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN

   Synonyms: danmuji