noun
vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste
Refers to the dish itself, typically made by burying vegetables in a fermented rice-bran bed (ぬかどこ). Common home-style pickle.
祖母のぬかみそ漬けは絶品だ。
My grandmother's rice-bran pickles are superb.
きゅうりのぬかみそ漬けが一番好き
I like cucumber rice-bran pickles the best.
Compound of ぬかみそ (salted rice-bran paste) and 漬け (pickling). The exact historical origin of rice-bran pickling is uncertain, but it has been a traditional preservation method in Japan for centuries.