In Japanese cuisine, we sometimes make fancy shapes out of ingredients like vegetables and shiitake mushrooms. Today, I’ll show you how to make nejiri ume (ねじり梅) or plum blossom carrots out of carrot slices using a vegetable cutter and a knife.
How to Use Nejiri Ume
You can add these plum flower carrots to simmered and hot pot dishes for both celebratory occasions and everyday meals. You’ll find them added to chikuzenni (筑前煮), which is both a home cooking classic and a signature recipe of Japanese New Year cuisine called osechi ryori. This chicken and vegetables dish simmered in dashi, soy sauce, and mirin is a popular addition to bento since it’s delicious served at room temperature.
Add Nejiri Ume To These Recipes
Shabu Shabu Sukiyaki Chikuzenni (Nishime) Anko Nabe (Monkfish Hot Pot) Chanko Nabe (Sumo Stew)
Nejiri ume is a more advanced technique than the simple hanagiri method. However, you don’t need advanced cooking skills to create these cute spring flowers. Just follow my quick method below with step-by-step instructions and photos. Here’s how I do it!
