Japanese
Renkon Kinpira (Stir-Simmered Lotus Root)
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Renkon Kinpira (Stir-Simmered Lotus Root) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Peel the renkon and slice it thinly into half-moons, soaking briefly in water to prevent browning, then drain.
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Heat the sesame oil in a skillet and stir-fry the renkon with the crumbled chili until the edges turn translucent, about 4 minutes.
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Add the soy sauce, mirin, and sugar and cook, stirring, until glazed, about 5 minutes.
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Sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.
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Serve it with
A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Renkon Kinpira (Stir-Simmered Lotus Root), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Renkon Kinpira (Stir-Simmered Lotus Root) carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Ninjin Shirishiri (Carrot and Egg Stir-Fry with Tuna) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Ninjin Shirishiri (Carrot and Egg Stir-Fry with Tuna) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Agedashi Tofu (Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce) |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 90 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 450 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Renkon Kinpira (Stir-Simmered Lotus Root) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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