Sansai Pickles - Japanese-Style Spring Veggies

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The wild bounty of Maine is preserved here in our Japanese-inspired spring ferment! Fiddleheads, ramps, and chives meld beautifully with the first frost-sweetened bok choy crop of the season, Maine maple syrup, and just a tiny bit of spice from Japanese togarashi peppers. You'll be enjoying Maine spring all year long!

INGREDIENTS: Bok choy, fiddleheads, water, maple syrup, chives, kosher salt, ramps, soy sauce  (water, soybeans, wheat, sea salt, koji), ichimi togarashi (Japanese pepper flakes)

ALLERGEN INFORMATION: Contains soy and wheat

SPICE LEVEL: 🔥

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Sansai is the Japanese word for wild foraged vegetables, and we've taken this concept and married it in a ferment with our own Maine spring veggies . Delicate fiddleheads and ramps appear as winter melts into spring, just after the maple sugaring season. The bok choy, chives, maple syrup, and mushrooms in this ferment are grown in Maine, and the soy sauce is from Moromi Shoyu in Stonington, CT.

This is a very limited edition ferment, based on the brief availability of wild fiddleheads and ramps during the spring season. Over-foraging of these wild plants remains an issue in the culinary community, and sometimes we'll only have enough for one or two batches.

This is a naturally fermented pickle, which means you should store it in the refrigerator. At room temperature, little bubbling or overflow of liquid is possible and totally normal. You might see a whitish sediment on the bottom of the jar, which is a natural byproduct of fermentation and safe to eat.

Products are delivered via USPS Priority Mail and will be mailed out Tuesday or Wednesday of each week.

Kimchi should be refrigerated as soon as you receive it. In the hotter summer months, we might have to pause delivery (extreme heat is bad for kimchi!), but we’ll notify everyone our website and social media in advance.

For those who live in Maine, free local pickup is available – you’ll see the option when you check out.

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