Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, root vegetable kinpira stir-fry. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Root Vegetable Kinpira Stir-fry is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Root Vegetable Kinpira Stir-fry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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 common ingredient for this cooking style. The name Kinpira comes from legendary muscleman, and that shows how nutritious the dish really is. Root Vegetable Kinpira Stir-fry I arranged my family's standard stir-fry into something that looks and tastes brilliant.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook root vegetable kinpira stir-fry using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Root Vegetable Kinpira Stir-fry:
- Make ready 5 cm Lotus root
- Get 1/2 Burdock root
- Make ready 1 Carrot
- Get 1 dash Konnyaku
- Make ready 1 dash Finely diced yuzu peel
- Prepare 1 dash Shichimi spice
- Get 1 Sesame oil
- Get A
- Prepare 1 tsp Sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- Get 1 tbsp Mirin
Add in the red chili pepper and soy sauce and stir to combine. Heat sesame oil in a pan and saute burdock, carrot and red chili on medium heat until carrot is soft. Burdock root will remain a bit harder, but make sure it's not too tough! Add in sugar and mirin first.
Instructions to make Root Vegetable Kinpira Stir-fry:
- Shred the burdock root finely. Slice the lotus root and soak in vinegar water, then wash. Julienne 1/2 a carrot and konnyaku.
- Cut the rest of the carrot into blossom shapes. Boil for about 8 minutes and then take out.
- Put sesame oil into the frying pan and heat Step 1, Step 2, and the A ingredients on medium.
- Arrange on a plate. Alternatively, you can take out the milder components of the dish, and fry with chili pepper and finely diced yuzu peel.
Burdock root will remain a bit harder, but make sure it's not too tough! Add in sugar and mirin first. Mix well for a minute or two, then add in soy sauce. Kinpira is a Japanese cooking style in which sliced vegetables are stir-fried and seasoned with sugar and soy sauce. The most common ingredients used for Kinpira is gobo (burdock root) and carrot, but the lotus root is another common ingredient of this cooking style.
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