Sweet-and-Sour Young Ginger

Why people make this snack

This is one of Nourilo’s simple kitchen pleasures — crisp, sweet-and-sour pickled young ginger that perks up the appetite. The recipe is barely a recipe: just coarse salt, sugar, and pure rice vinegar, balanced to your own taste (Nourilo leans sweet). Young ginger is traditionally warming and settling for the stomach, which makes this a favorite little jar to keep in the fridge.