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In markets and restaurants, pickled burdock root is often sold as an accompaniment to sushi or rice meals. But in Japanese cookery, burdock is an all-purpose vegetable that's added to stews, stir-fried, and pickled. With a pleasantly crunchy texture, burdock has a sweet flavor that's similar to lotus root.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fried burdock root with sweet & salty sauce using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fried Burdock Root with Sweet & Salty sauce:

1. Get 1 burdock root (about 100g)
2. Make ready *Sauce
3. Get 1 1/2-2 tbsp *soy sauce
4. Take 2 tbsp *sugar
5. Get 2 1/2 tbsp *mirin
6. Take 1/2 cup corn starch
7. Take 1 tbsp sesame seeds
8. Make ready Vegetable oil for deep frying
9. Take Crushed chili pepper (or shichimi spice powder)

Traditionally, it's been most commonly used as a diuretic and a digestive aid. See recipes for Sweet soy flavored burdock roots and carrots too. Burdock root has a chewy and crunchy consistency with a mild, sweet, and earthy taste similar to artichoke, but Burdock root is especially prevalent in Japanese cuisine and is known as Gobo root. In Japan, the root is often sliced thinly into coin-shaped pieces, fried, and served as a chip-like snack.

Instructions to make Fried Burdock Root with Sweet & Salty sauce:

1. Scrub the burdock root well, leave skins on, cut into 5 cm length pieces and cut in half lengthwise. Soak in water and drain well.
2. Heat the *sauce in a pan until sugar melted.
3. Dust the burdock root with the cornstarch. Heat the oil in a pot and deep-fry the burdock root until tender.
4. Mix ②’s sauce and deep-fried burdock root together. Sprinkle on sesame seed and crushed chili pepper (or shichimi spice powder).

The second dish is Burdock Fries. Since the sliced root has a starchy texture, it's perfect for frying. Eating wild burdock root fresh will have a much different taste than dried powder supplements, though both will contain the same phytonutrients. After being thoroughly rinsed with a good scrub, when you bite into this fibrous raw root, it will evoke an earthy yet sweet flavor, reminiscent of a lotus root. Burdock root or gobo is a deep root that grows straight down into the ground which symbolizes stability for house and family.

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