Cucumber Salad with Salted Plum and Kelp (Kyuri no ume shio konbu ae)
This is a simple side dish, using pickled plum and salt kelp. Speaking of Japanese rice balls (Onigiri), many people in Japan would imagine pickled plum or kelp inside them. These ingredients are a pretty good match for Japanese rice. Pickled plum aka umeboshi in Japanese is a plum that is packed in salt and…