Recipe: Yummy For the New Year's Feast: Burdock Roots with Cashew Nuts

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For the New Year's Feast: Burdock Roots with Cashew Nuts. Great recipe for For the New Year's Feast: Burdock Roots with Cashew Nuts. I was served a dish of burdock roots with some nuts at a soba noodle restaurant, so I tried to recreate the dish at home using nuts as the main ingredient. Peel the burdock root if you prefer.

Burdock root "gobou" three ways ごぼうの杣（そま）揚げ、チップス、きんぴら For the New Year, I bought some burdock roots or gobou 牛蒡.

One package contained two roots, which is a lot.

So, after I used a portion for the New Year's dishes, I needed to finish up the remaining gobou..

You can have For the New Year's Feast: Burdock Roots with Cashew Nuts using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of For the New Year's Feast: Burdock Roots with Cashew Nuts

1. It’s 1/2 of Burdock root.

2. You need 20 of to 25 Cashew nuts (or almonds ).

3. Prepare 1 of and 1/2 tablespoons ☆Ground white sesame seeds.

4. You need 1 tbsp of ☆ Mentsuyu.

5. You need 1/3 tsp of ☆Sugar.

6. You need 1 tsp of Vinegar (to remove bitterness).

Sara and Dad settled the Vegetable Civil War by each roasting a batch.

I assumed Dad's would be boring since he refuses to eat garlic, onion, salt or pepper, but those tamari-doused parsnips, carrots, turnips, daikon, celery and burdock roots were as good as Sara's fingerling potatoes, Chioggia beets and Atomic Red carrots.

Second-year Burdock with Immature (Edible) Flower Stalk.

The flowers resemble purple shaving brushes.

For the New Year's Feast: Burdock Roots with Cashew Nuts instructions

1. Scrub the burdock roots well with a stiff brush to remove the dirt. Chop into 5 cm pieces, then slice into fourths..

2. Put some water and vinegar into a bowl. Soak the burdock roots to remove bitterness. After 5 to 6 minutes, drain into a colander or a sieve..

3. Boil the burdock roots in a pan. Turn the heat to medium when the water starts to boil. I would say, cook for approx. 5 to 6 minutes..

4. When done, drain into a colander or a sieve..

5. Put the cashew nuts into a plastic bag. Pound with a rolling pin to crush..

6. Now put the cashew nuts and condiments marked ☆ into a bowl. Then add the burdock roots and mix together to finish. I took this photo after adding the cashew nuts and sesame seeds..

7. The cashew nuts may be slightly salted. Taste and adjust the amount of seasonings depending on your dipping sauce, especially if youre using unsalted cashews..

8. I make my own mentsuyu by the way. Storebought mentsuyu is usually concentrated and need to be dliuted. I also used light brown sugar. Use your preferred flavoring ingredients..

The fruits that follow are brown globular burrs that stick to clothing and anything else.

It's traditional custom for Japanese people to eat O-sechi (traditional food for the New Year) and O-zoni (rice cake and fish based soup) during New Year's, just as Western people enjoy eating turkey and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving day.

Incase of nuts and seeds, good options include flaxseed, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews and walnuts.

Peanuts and peanut butter are usually not recommended.

My dad's parents came from Okinawa, and my dad was born in California.