Recipe: Delicious Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad

Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad. Kinpira Gobo is a simple Japanese stir fry vegetable dish with braised carrot & burdock root cooked in soy sauce. Burdock is a root that when shaved has a pleasantly crunchy texture with a sweet flavor and floral scent. In this recipe, it is sautéed in sesame oil and then topped with soy sauce and sesame seeds.

Braised Burdock (Kinpira Gobō) is a vegetable side dish. Burdock root and carrot are cut into matchsticks and cooked in slightly sweet soy sauce. I need to call it Kinpira Gobō instead of Braised Burdock throughout this blog because it just doesn't sound right for me and if I use the English name. You can cook Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad

1. You need 1 of Burdock.
2. Prepare 50 g of Carrot.
3. You need 1 of Red chili pepper.
4. You need of (Seasonings).
5. It's 1 Tbs of Sugar.
6. You need 1 Tbs of Sweet sake.
7. You need 1 Tbs of Cooking sake.
8. Prepare 1.5 Tbs of Soy sauce.
9. You need 1 Tsp of Sesame oil.
10. It's of Some white sesame.

Kinpira Gobo is a staple Japanese home cooking side dish. Kinpira gobo is braised burdock root. Kinpira is usually referred to as a way of cooking vegetables. It is when something is sauteed and simmered or braised in sake, mirin and soy sauce base sauce.

Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad step by step

1. Wash a burdock and the carrot by running water and brush. The ratio of burdock and carrot is 3 to 1 would be better..
2. Cut to shredding a burdock and the carrot, Slice a red chili pepper without seeds. I will show you how to cut burdock for difference of texture on my cooking video..
3. Soak the burdock into water in the bowl for 5 min (to remove the scum) then drain it later..
4. Pour some canola oil in a pan, add red chili pepper with low heat till spicy comes out. Change to highest heat and add burdock and carrot..
5. When the burdock cooks add seasonings except sesame oil, keep heating till the sauce is getting low. When the sauce is low pour sesame oil on top and wait 5 seconds then turn off heat. Put some sesame seeds and done..
6. You can watch this cooking video → 「Coozy Life burdock」on my YouTube channel ! Have a nice your cooking time guys..

Kinpira gobo is a sweet and earthy-tasting Japanese salad of braised gobo (burdock root) and carrot. It's made by peeling and julienning the root vegetables into matchsticks, sauteeing them lightly in oil, and then simmering the vegetables with sugar, soy sauce, and mirin. Make the salad the tastiest part of the meal with this unique yet effortless gobo burdock root salad. Gobo (burdock, in English) is a root vegetable with a sweet, mild flavour that can be substituted for or used. Kinpira Gobo is a traditional Japanese dish often enjoyed at home, typically served in a bento box.

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