Recipe: Perfect Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad

Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad. Kinpira Gobo (Braised Burdock Root) きんぴらごぼう. Kinpira Gobo is a traditional Japanese dish often enjoyed at home and you might be familiar with it since it's typically served in bento box from Japanese markets. It's really easy to cook if you have all the ingredients.

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 achieve that.

Ingredients of Japanese Vegan → Kinpira Gobo / Burdock salad

1. It's 1 of Burdock.
2. You need 50 g of Carrot.
3. You need 1 of Red chili pepper.
4. It's of (Seasonings).
5. Prepare 1 Tbs of Sugar.
6. Prepare 1 Tbs of Sweet sake.
7. Prepare 1 Tbs of Cooking sake.
8. It's 1.5 Tbs of Soy sauce.
9. It's 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 traditional Japanese dish often enjoyed at home, typically served in a bento box. Kinpira means a cooking style that you stir fry and simmer with sugar and soy sauce. The most common ingredients used for Kinpira is gobo (burdock root) and carrot, but lotus root is another. 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.