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Takuwan (takuan) is pickled daikon, a type of tsukemono, or preserved vegetable. In our house, we called tsukemono, \u201cko-ko,\u201d which I\u2019m just now learning is perhaps a pidgin pronunciation of the actual Japanese name, \u201cok\u014dk\u014d<\/em>.\u201d My mom would serve just a tiny portion of ko-ko, nestled up against the rice, with every dinner. And yes, 99% of dinners included rice. It sounds fancy, but it wasn\u2019t. It was just a matter-of-fact thing\u2014a tiny bit of ko-ko needed to be next to the rice. While we\u2019d cycle through a few different kinds of ko-ko depending on what was on sale, the one we had most often was takuwan. My mom loved it so much, she used to (still does) call me her \u201clittle takuwan.\u201d Here\u2019s a recipe for this ko-ko that is usually bright yellow, but if you are wary of food coloring, you are welcome to leave it out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Takuwan (takuan) is pickled daikon, a type of tsukemono, or preserved vegetable. In our house, we called tsukemono, \u201cko-ko.\u201d Mom would serve just a tiny portion of ko-ko, nestled up against the rice, with every dinner. Here\u2019s a recipe for this ko-ko that is usually bright yellow, but if you are wary of food coloring, you are welcome to leave it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7,5,3,4,6],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pickles-and-preserves","tag-favorite-recipes-for-islanders-1978","tag-haina","tag-japanese","tag-mrs-yukie-takae","tag-trial-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kaukauchronicles.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n![](\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5ef939f36932313286f61200\/1600635224137-LGELWDO3U3JWTR3N3TML\/77.png?format=original\")
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