Description: One of the Japanese traditional dishes, “kinpira”. Kinpira can be very simple, just cooked with only one ingredient or with a lot of vegetables. It’s your choice.
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• Chikuwa fish cake – chopped diagonally, 160g
• Carrots – chopped into thin strips, 50g (You may use more carrot according to your preference)
• 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 carrots and chikuwa for a few minutes.
2. Add the mirin, soy sauce and 3 tablespoons of water and cook them thoroughly until the water evaporates.
3. Sprinkle some sesame seeds and serve.

Nutritional Values Per Serving

Kal	Protein	Fat	Carbs	Fibre	Sugars	Salt	Saturated Fat
149.2	10.4g	4.3g	15.7g	2.4g	6.8g	1.5g	0.6 g
7.5%	20.7%	6.1%	6.0%	7.8%	7.6%	24.9%	3.0%

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 meat are also used (chicken, pork, beef) but the basics are mainly root vegetables. 

When your fridge is lacking fresh food … this can be a dish you can cook simply. You can use frozen carrots or any vegetables (e.g. green beans, broccoli stem, lotus roots, potatoes, peppers, celery, pumpkins) with chikuwa fishcakes (which can be kept frozen).