How to prepare burdock roots for a dish.

If you are interested in a dish of burdock roots, I would like to show how to prepare them.

1 Remove a cane and leaves.

2 Scrape a root with a knife or scraper.



3 Slice it.

4 Soak sliced roots in water for a few minuets for removing scum.(Important for making the taste better!)

5 Boil the roots and other vegetables with your favorite soup.(My wife used a Miso-soup in this case.)

6 Miso-soup with sliced carrots and burdock roots.Sliced shiso leaves (green perilla) are added as condiment.

Burdock roots are very popular and known as a fiber-rich vegetable in Japan.

Introduction of Burdock roots

 

I was very surprised with a comment on my blog saying he or she considers burdocks a weed and has a trouble in picking them up.

I think eating burdock roots is not so popular in other countries and now I would like to show my burdocks in my garden and how to cook them later.

Burdocks are relatively easy to be raised even by beginners since they suck up much nutrition in soil rather than other vegetables.

You just have to water them enough. 

Today's harvest2

Today's harvest list

1: 2baskets of potatoes
/2: 20 carrots
/3: 25 burdock roots
/4: 2bunch of shiso (Japanese green perilla)

It's very lucky to find that some grenn perilla have grown wild beside ridges of potatoes.
We use chopped perilla leaves for condiment,which can go well with Sushi, Tenpura and other Japannese dishes.
I believe you can add them to a salad and fish cuisines in your country,if they are available.