Kinpira is a Japanese cooking style in which strips of ingredients are stir fried and seasoned with sugar and soy sauce. Kinpira gobou is the most popular kinpira dish. I made potato kinpira before. This is popular item for Japanese bento (lunch boxes).
Yield: 2 servings
Time: 20 minutes
Spices
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp mirin
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
Ingredients
- 2 oz sliced carrots
- 4 oz sliced gobou
- 2 tsp sesame seeds
Preparation
- Mix spices together in a small bowl (sake, soy sauce, sugar, and mirin)
- Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan then stir-fry gobou and carrot for 2 minutes over medium heat
- Add mixed spices in the pan, and cook for 2 minutes on low heat
- Sprinkle sesame on top and serve!
