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Pickled Daikon Sushi

A sushi roll made with pickled daikon, rice, nori, sesame seeds, and wasabi.

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Why it works: Sesame and wasabi share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pickled Daikon Sushi

Time15 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the daikon

  1. Sprinkle daikon strips lightly with salt.

  2. Let stand for 15 minutes.

  3. Rinse daikon with cold water and pat dry.

Make the rolls

  1. Cut nori sheet in half.

  2. Place half sheet of nori, shiny side down, on bamboo mat or plastic sheet.

  3. Spread 2/3 cup of cooked sushi rice evenly on nori sheet.

  4. Place sesame seeds in a small frying pan over medium heat. Cook sesame seeds, shaking pan until lightly browned, about 3 to 4 minutes.

  5. Spread a thin film of wasabi paste down the centre of rice.

  6. Sprinkle browned sesame seeds over the wasabi.

  7. Top with a strip of daikon.

  8. Roll sushi into a cylinder.

  9. Press bamboo mat or plastic sheet around rolled sushi to seal the edges.

  10. Repeat steps 1 to 12 to make a second roll.

Slice and serve

  1. Place sushi on a cutting board, slice each roll into 6 pieces.

  2. Serve with wasabi paste, soy sauce, and pickled ginger.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

337Calories
5 gProtein
14 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Daikonnot in our table0
Wasabinot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sesame + wasabitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Sesame + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Rice + wasabitop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Rice + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,196 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Daikon
Forms the crisp, mild wrap-like filling strip that gives each roll its bulk and bite.
Nori
Forms the sheet that wraps the rice and holds the roll together.
Sushi rice
Provides the sticky body that holds the roll together and makes it chewy.
Sesame seeds
Add a toasty, nutty aroma once lightly browned in the pan.

The step that matters

Sprinkle daikon strips lightly with salt and let stand. Salting draws out water from the daikon, so after rinsing and patting dry the strip is less watery and the roll holds together better.

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sesame, wasabi, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Gingerthe original
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sesame, wasabi, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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