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🔪 Cutting & cooking tips

Zaku-giri (rough chop)

Cutting leafy vegetables roughly into big pieces. The shape doesn’t matter, but keep the size about the same.

About the same sizeAbout 3 cm pieces

👀 At a glance

🔪HowBig, rough pieces
🥬Often forCabbage, napa cabbage
⏱WhyQuick to cut

🔪 How to

1

Stack the leaves

2

Cut from the end at the width in the recipe

3

Turn them and cut again at the same width

💡 Why cut it this way

  • It’s quick, and the vegetables stay crunchy
  • About the same size means it cooks evenly

⚠️ Be careful

  • Curl the fingertips of your holding hand slightly inward and keep them away from the blade
  • Stacked leaves slide. Hold them down with your whole palm

Recipes that use this