Recipe - Momiji Oroshi (Spicy Grated Daikon)

Momiji oroshi is simply grated daikon radish with dried chili pepper. It makes for a spicy dip for nabe (hot pots) and is easy to make.

Simply take a piece of fresh daikon and some dried chili peppers. With a cooking chopstick, make about five holes into the daikon, about the length of a chili pepper. Then go back to each hole inserting a chili pepper in with a chopstick as illustrated above. Then simply grate with a grater.

Momiji oroshi gets its colorful name from the maple leaves, that in the autumn turn a brilliant red color, represented by this color. Oroshi is for grated daikon radish.

This is nice with a pork shabu-shabu with vegetables.