Cookbook:Carrots Cooked Kinpira Style
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Kinpira is a Japanese cooking term that roughly translates to sauté and simmer. The aim is to cook root vegetables such as carrots and burdock root in a minimum amount of water so that they end up tenderly cooked and with none of their flavour or nutritional value lost into discarded cooking water.
Ingredients[edit]
- 250g (½ lb) carrots, julienned
- 1 Tbs vegetable oil, preferably sesame oil
- water
- Tamari or shoyu soy sauce, to taste
Procedure[edit]
- Cut the carrots into thin matchstick pieces (sen-giri, or julienned)
- Pour a small amount of oil into a saucepan and sauté the carrot pieces briefly
- Add only enough water to half-cover the carrot pieces
- Place the lid on the pot and let the carrots simmer briefly on medium-low heat
- Add a little tamari or shoyu to enhance flavour