Lotus Root and beef kinpira (牛肉とレンコンのきんぴら)

/ Haruka Sugiyama

Description:  It is nutritious, delicious and simple to cook. Frozen vegetables can be used. You can cook a large amount and eat it the next day. 
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • Lotus roots- cut into half moon slices 2-3 mm width, 100g
  • Carrot – chopped into thin strips, 50g (You may use more carrot according to your preference)
  • Thinly sliced beef (rib eye) – 50g
  • Mirin cooking wine – ½ tablespoon
  • Soy sauce – ½ tablespoon
  • Dried Chilli – chopped, 1 piece
  • Sesame seeds – 1 teaspoon
  • Sesame oil – ½ tablespoon

Method

1. In a non-stick frying pan, add the sesame oil and dried chilli, then fry the beef, lotus roots and carrots for a few minutes.
2. Add mirin, soy sauce and 3 tablespoons of water and cook them thoroughly until the water evaporates.
3. Sprinkle sesame seeds and serve.

Nutritional Values Per Serving

KcalProteinFatCarbsFibreSugarsSaltSaturated Fat
156.26.8g9.0g13.5g3.4g2.3g0.8g2.7g
7.8%13.7%12.8%5.2%11.4%2.6%12.6%13.4%
*These values are approximate and based on the value from ingredients prepared before cooking (Reference USDA). Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may vary depending on your calorie needs. Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3 and Vitamin D are over 10%, Zinc, Vitamin B1 and Vitamin B6 are over 20%, Vitamin A is over 30%, Vitamin C is over 50% of an adult’s daily reference intake. However, some vitamins may be lost while cooking.

Nutritional Tips

“Kinpira” is one of the Japanese traditional dishes. It is nutritious, delicious and easy to cook. It is very common to add it to a bento box. Root vegetables such as carrot, burdock (the dish would be called “kinpira gobo” as burdock is called gobo in Japanese) and lotus root and some meats are also used (chicken, pork, beef) but the basics are mainly root vegetables. 

Only soy sauce and mirin cooking wine are minimum needed to cook, therefore it is actually a fairly simple Japanese dish. Sushi is not the only typical Japanese dish. Why don’t you try this at home and tell your friend that you made a Japanese traditional dish?

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