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#167.1 おさけとうめぼし Intermediate

from NIHONGOBLOG - Easy Japanese Blog from UK - かんたんな日本語でブログを書いています · host Kazue Ono

私はうめぼしが好きです。よく、うめぼしのおにぎりを食べます。ときどき、うめぼしのお酒を飲みます。 私はうちでジントニックを作ります。ジントニックにレモンを入れます。ライムでもいいです。ある日、ジントニックに梅干しを入れてみました。とてもおいしくて、びっくりしました。梅干しはすっぱいです。そして、しょっぱいです。この、しょっぱさが甘いトニックウォーターとよく合います。今年の夏は梅ジントニックにはまっていました。今は寒くなったので、温かいジンに梅干しを入れて飲んでいます。 ジンを使ったカクテルといえばマティーニがありますよね。マティーニにはよくオリーブが入っていますが、オリーブと梅干しは味が似てると思います。でも、温かいジンにオリーブを入れても、あまりおいしくなさそうです。梅干しが温かいジンに合うのは、梅のかくれた甘さのせいだと思います。ジンの苦さと梅干しのしょっぱさと甘さのバランスが絶妙です。日本なら焼酎をお湯で割って梅干しを入れるのはよくあります。うちには焼酎がないので、ジンでもおいしいというのは、いい発見です。 I like umeboshi, pickled plums. I often eat rice balls made of umeboshi. Sometimes I drink alcohol with umeboshi. I make gin and tonic at home. I put lemon in my gin and tonic. Lime is also fine. One day I put umeboshi in my gin and tonic. It was very tasty and I was surprised. Umeboshi are sour. And salty. This salty taste goes well with sweet tonic water. This summer I was addicted to ume gin and tonic. Now that it's colder, I drink warm gin with umeboshi in it. Speaking of cocktails made with gin, there is the martini. Martini's often have olives in them, and I think olives and umeboshi taste similar. But if you put olives in warm gin, it doesn't seem to taste very good. I think umeboshi goes well with warm gin because of the hidden sweetness of the plums. The balance between the bitterness of the gin and the salty-sweetness of the umeboshi is perfect. In Japan, it is common to mix shochu with hot water and add umeboshi. I don't have shochu in my house, so it's a nice discovery that it tastes good with gin.

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