Vegetables
Negi sprouts
芽ねぎ めねぎ menegi
Also known asmenegi
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How to cook
Sushi
As a topping for gunkan or thin rolls; crisp, with a strong scent.
Floated in soup
Laid in the bowl, where the scent rises and the colour shows.
As a garnish
Beside sashimi or an appetiser, where its fine form stands out.
How to choose
Deep green and growing straight, with a firm white base.
Storage
Sensitive to drying. Wrap in damp paper, seal and refrigerate. Use within two days.
Main areas
Good to know
Young spring onions a few centimetres tall. Sown densely and blanched under cover. Prized as a sushi topping in Edomae cooking, it is strongly aromatic but mild in pungency, and is treated as a quite separate ingredient from the mature plant.
