🍱 Rakkasei Namasu (Vegetable Salad Marinated with Vinegar and Peanuts)

"Kouhaku Namasu" (vegetable salad marinated with vinegar), one of the must dishes in "osechi" new year dishes, is known with vinaigrette mixed vinegar and sugar and tastes sweet and sour. On the other hand, it is common to add roasted grounded peanuts to "kouhaku namasu" in Fujinomiya City, Fuji City and its surrounded eastern area, where peanuts is the main product. Adding grounded peanuts makes the salad less sour and adds rich flavor of peanuts, so it is easier for those who don't like sour food to eat. Besides, "boiled peanut" (boiled peanuts with shell, then eating them after removing shell) is popular among the locals in that area as a unique way to enjoy peanuts.