Ingredients: 1 (thick type) or 2 (thin type) burdock root sweet vinegar dressing: 1/2 cup rice vinegar 1/2 cup soup stock 2 tablespoons sugar a pinch of salt a little of soy sauce white sesame
Directions:1. Make sweet vinegar dressing. Put rice vinegar, soup stock, sugar, salt and soy sauce in the pan. Heat. When boil, stop to heat and cool. 2. Wash burdock with a scrubbing brush and scrape off rind with the back of knife. 3. Cut burdock into 1 1/2 inch length and soak in water for a while. 4. Boil burdock in the pan for 2 or 3 minutes. The time of boiling is adjusted to one`s taste in consistency. 5. Put boiled burdock into the plastic bag and beat bag on the cutting board with a wooden pestle until burdock becomes soft. Soak burdock in sweet vinegar dressing for half a day. 6. Arrange burdock on serving plate and sprinkle roasted white sesame. |