Izakaya Sakura Kinpira Gobo - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 burdock root
2 carrots
3 tablespoons dashi (or water)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon sake
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons mirin (or 2 tbs sake and 2 tsp sugar)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Preparation

Peel gobo (burdock root) and carrot and cut into short, thin strips. Soak the.gobo strips in water for 5 minutes and drain well.
Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan, and stir-fry gobo for 2 minutes. Add carrot strips in the pan and stir-fry together for 3 more minutes.
Add water, sake, mirin, sugar and soy sauce, and cook until the liquid is gone.