Recipe: To Try At Home ‘Kimpira’ Celery

Recipe: To Try At Home ‘Kimpira’ Celery Delicious, fresh and tasty.

‘Kimpira’ Celery. Commonly root vegetables such as Gobo (burdock root) and Renkon (lotus root) or Carrot are used. Commonly root vegetables such as Gobo (burdock root) and Renkon (lotus root) or Carrot are used. The vegetables need to remain crunchy texture after cooked.

You can remove the smell of the konnyaku by first boiling in water, then dry-roasting.

Recipe by Obuusama Celery stalk kinpira.

A lot of people never think about cooking celery stalks, unless it's to add to a soup or chowder.

You can have ‘Kimpira’ Celery using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of ‘Kimpira’ Celery

1. Prepare of Celery 8 to 10 stems (*I usually use a whole bunch except very tender stalks inside).

2. You need of Oil.

3. You need of Soy Sauce.

4. You need of Mirin.

5. Prepare of Sugar.

6. Prepare of Shichimi (Japanese Chilli Seasoning).

7. It’s of Toasted Sesame Seeds.

Cooked celery is crunchy and delicious as it's full of umami.

This is a very simple kinpira where the flavor of the celery and the olive oil really shines through.

Kimpira Celery and the stir fry dish will be posted sometime later so that you won't be bombarded with celery dishes week after week.

Celery has tough strings that run vertically along the stems.

‘Kimpira’ Celery instructions

1. Cut all stalks diagonally about 3 to 4mm thickness..

2. Heat Oil in a frying pan over high heat and cook Celery until lightly browned. Add Soy Sauce, Mirin and Sugar and cook quickly until the sauce is caramelised..

3. Sprinkle some Shichimi and Toasted Sesame Seeds on top..

I used to remove them before I started cooking because they could be really tough and stringy.

Kinpira (金平 or きんぴら) is a Japanese cooking style that can be summarized as a technique of "sauté and simmer".

It is commonly used to cook root vegetables such as carrot, burdock (to make kinpira gobo) and lotus root, seaweeds such as arame and hijiki and other foods including tofu and wheat gluten (namafu), and even meat (chicken, pork, beef).

The dish features the use of soy.

Kimpira, also know as kinpira, is a traditional Japanese fried vegetable dish.