Michimoto Hinatazuke Tokusen Ippon Whole Sun-Dried Takuan 270g is a single whole daikon radish, sun-dried and then pickled to the deep gold of a traditional takuan. It is made from 100% Miyazaki-grown dried daikon and is a product of Japan. Because it comes as one uncut radish rather than ready-sliced, you cut it exactly as you want it — thin and translucent for a rice bowl, thicker for something to bite into.
The drying is the point. Michimoto hangs Miyazaki daikon outdoors on open yagura racks between December and February, leaving it about two weeks in the region's generous winter sun and the cold Kirishima-oroshi wind coming down off the mountains. The maker's own account is direct about why: drying is what builds the radish's umami and its texture. Michimoto has made sun-dried takuan under the Hinatazuke (日向漬) name for more than fifty years.
About Michimoto
Michimoto Foods Co., Ltd. (道本食品株式会社) is a Miyazaki pickle maker founded on 1 September 1937, with its head office and factory in Tano-cho, Miyazaki City. Its business is the manufacture and sale of pickles, and it presents two product lines: sun-dried takuan and dried vegetables.
What is takuan?
Takuan (たくあん) is Japan's traditional pickled daikon radish — golden, crisp and faintly sweet, and one of the standard tsukemono set out with a meal. Traditionally the radish is dried before it is pickled, which is what gives takuan its concentrated flavour and its firm, snapping texture.
How to use & enjoy
Michimoto's own direction is to eat it as it comes, without washing, sliced as thinly as you can manage — around 2–3 mm. Beyond that, takuan is usually served as a side dish with a Japanese meal; it also turns up as a filling in sushi rolls, and it is a common bento item. Michimoto adds that this is an uncoloured product, so the shade of the takuan varies a little from pack to pack, and that once opened it should be kept in the refrigerator and eaten soon.
Ingredients
Dried daikon radish, pickling ingredients [salt, brewed vinegar, sugar, rice bran] / seasoning (amino acids etc.), alcohol, acidity regulator, antioxidant (vitamin C), sweetener (sucralose). Contains wheat and soybean.
Allergens
Contains: Soy, Wheat and Gluten.
Nutrition (per 100 g, as printed on the pack)
- Energy: 49 kcal
- Protein: 1.8 g
- Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrate: 10.1 g
- Salt equivalent: 3.0 g
Michimoto notes that these values are a guide.
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Whole sun-dried Miyazaki takuan · 特選一本 日向漬 · Michimoto Hinatazuke range.
