Beef, lotus roots, chikuwa, and green beans kinpira

/ Haruka Sugiyama

Description: One of the Japanese traditional dishes, “kinpira”.You can add your favourite vegetables and meat, and make your own style.
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • Lotus roots- cut into half moon slices 2-3 mm width, 100g
  • Chikuwa fish cake – chopped diagonally, 160g
  • Green Beans – 80g
  • 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, green beans and chikuwa 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
243.216.7g9.0g23.3g4.8g6.2g1.5g2.7 g
12.2%33.5%12.8%9.0%15.9%6.9%25.2%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. Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Potassium, Folate, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B3, Vitamin D are over 10%, Phosphoru, Zinc, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12 are over 20%, Vitamin C is over 70% 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 into a bento box. Root vegetables such as carrot, daikon radish, burdock (dish would be called “kinpira gobo” as burdock is called gobo in Japanese),lotus root and some meats are also used (chicken, pork, beef) but the basics are mainly root vegetables. 

Due to the nature of the recipe (using root vegetables as main ingredients), the dish tends to be rich in fibre. It is one of the good ways of consuming fibre. You can add any of your favourite vegetables to increase your vegetable intake. If you need more seasonings, mix soy sauce and mirin with the same portion. If you think the taste may get too strong or burnt, you can add a splash of water to help cooking.

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