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Rakkyo bulbs are salted heavily for about two weeks, which sets off a lactic fermentation, then soaked to draw out most of the salt and sealed in sweet vinegar. The quicker kantan-zuke skips the salting and fermentation and has to be kept in the fridge.
Fully documentedVegetables10 days – 14 days
Recipe
Amounts from a source4 kg of rakkyo, the Tottori Prefecture recipe on MAFF's regional cuisine site.
Total time across the recorded steps: 10 days – 14 days
Start
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What changes:Starting material: freshly dug rakkyo bulbs, washed
Step 1 of 5
Wash the bulbs
Time
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Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
L. plantarum
Output: washed rakkyo bulbs.
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Texture
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Colour
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Microbes at work in this step
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Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Rakkyo bulbs are salted heavily for about two weeks, which sets off a lactic fermentation, then soaked to draw out most of the salt and sealed in sweet vinegar. The quicker kantan-zuke skips the salting and fermentation and has to be kept in the fridge. Made in 5 steps over 10 days – 14 days. The longest step, salt and ferment (honzuke), takes 10–14 days (MAFF うちの郷土料理 (Our Regional Cuisines) 2026). Salt is 30 % (MAFF うちの郷土料理 (Our Regional Cuisines) 2026). In a commercial fermented rakkyo pickle from Momoya Co., not this recipe, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum N14 was added as the starter culture does most of the fermenting.
The honzuke method ferments the bulbs in heavy salt before they are desalted and put into vinegar. The quick kantan-zuke goes straight into vinegar with no fermentation.
Rakkyo is said to have come to Tottori in the Edo period. Large-scale growing began after an industrial cooperative (sangyō kumiai) was set up in the early Taishō era and sprinkler irrigation came in, and salting and seasoning began around 1965, when farm cooperatives took up processing to steady prices. Tottori sand-dune rakkyo was registered as a Japanese GI in 2016.
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.