That said, if burdock is not available at your local grocers, you can also substitute it with other root and hardy vegetables like lotus root and daikon as mentioned above. Choose young burdock whenever possible as the larger and older ones may be too fibrous for one’s taste and sometimes, the insides have already become so fibrous that it’s dried out. Burdock a root vegetable which is available at our local supermarkets and markets in Singapore, though I must say that it is often neglected. The dish first requires the root vegetables to be julienned into match-stick like strips. That’s every mother’s wish at least…Īs with many of such Japanese home-cooked dishes, simplicity is of utmost importance, requiring few steps and calling for only a handful of ingredients.
It is in hope that through eating this dish, one’s children could grown up to be as strong and brave like Kinpira. musical dramas like Noh (能) and Kabuki (歌舞伎) or traditional story-telling like Joruri (浄瑠璃). The dish is actually named after a character in Japanese folklore, Kinpira (金平) who was the son of Kintaro （金太郎) known to exhibit superhuman strength, whose acts of bravery are being portrayed in traditional Japanese art forms i.e. The vegetables are first given a quick stir-fry, usually with light sesame oil before being boiled down over dashi stock. Kinpira in modern context is a culinary term in Japanese cuisine to mean “saute and simmer”.
And yes! the Japanese name for carrots is the same as the korean and chinese name for ginseng! Sometimes written in Kanji as “金平牛蒡” Kinpira Gobo is a very versatile dish which can be improvised for other root vegetables like 蓮根 renkon (lotus root), 大根 daikon (white radish) or just 人参 ninjin (carrots) on their own. It is often used as a side-dish filler in takeaway bentos from Japanese delis and depachikas, most notable for the crunch from the root vegetables used. But unlike Daikon no Soboroni, many of us have actually eaten Kinpira Gobo before without realising it. きんぴらごぼう Kinpira Gobo is yet another classic dish in traditional Japanese home-styled cooking.
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