Name: Broad Beans, Daikon and Salmon Roe (Sora-mame No Ae-mono)
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz daikon, peeled; 1 nori sheet; 1 kg/2¼ lb broad (fava) beans in their pods, shelled; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp wasabi paste from tube or 2.5 ml/½ tsp wasabi powder mixed with 1.5 ml/¼ tsp water; salt; 60 ml/4 tbsp ikura; 20 ml/4 tsp shoyu

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

Sora-mame No Ae-mono is a typical Tsumami bar snack eaten throughout Japan. This unusual combination of colours, flavours and textures makes it ideal company for a refreshing glass of cold sake in the summer months.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz daikon, peeled
1 nori sheet
1

Method

Grate the daikon finely with a daikon grater, or use a food processor to chop it into fine shreds. Place the daikon in a sieve and let the juices drain.
Tear the nori with your hands into flakes about 1cm/½in square.
In a small pan, cook the broad beans in plenty of rapidly boiling salted water for about 4 minutes. Drain and immediately cool under run