There are two reasons to make umeboshi, the sour pickled plums that mellow out the longer you keep them. There’s the plums themselves, but you’ll also be rewarded with umeshu, a salty ...

Which brings me to my current hyperfixation: umeboshi paste. Umeboshi paste is made from pickled Japanese plums that are blitzed and typically mixed with salt (although sometimes honey replaces ...

Umeboshi are salted pickled Japanese plums that can usually be found atop a bed of white rice, or tucked away in the middle of an onigiri rice ball. Despite their mouth puckering-ly sour taste, ...

Chamoy, which comes as a dried fruit, candy, and sauce ... was the inspiration for Japanese umeboshi (a pickled and salted apricot made from the same ume plum), and eventually became Mexican ...

Known as “ume,” Japanese plums are becoming well-known around the world these days in large part due to the popularity of umeshu (plum liqueur). Just as in fashion within Japan are umeboshi ...

It uses umeboshi (salted Japanese plums), but what you put inside can be just about anything — fish, meat, veggies, even cheese — as long as it fits and tastes good. Feel free to experiment.