Coated in flavoursome roasted white sesame sauce, today’s dish brings the best out of the burdock – it’s crunchy texture and unique taste. You can eat Pounded Burdock Root with Sesame Sauce just like snacks.
Fill a bowl or a plastic container with 500ml/16.9oz of water (not in ingredients) with 2 tablespoons of vinegar.
Rinse and cut it into a log about 5cm/2” long. If the root is thick, cut the log in half or quarter lengthwise so that each piece is about the thickness of your little finger.
This dish is best to eat after few hours (note 5). Keeps up to 4-5 days in the fridge.
1. My burdock root was thin and long. It was about 50cm/1.6ft long which is too long to handle when scraping off the skin. That’s why I cut it to half. But if your burdock is fat and short, you don’t need to cut it.
2. I used light soy sauce to maintain the colour of the white sesame as much as possible. But you can use normal soy sauce instead.
3. The burdock pieces are small and hot but you need to pound them as fast as possible.
4. It is important to dress the burdock while hot so that the flavour of the Sesame Sauce is absorbed into the burdock effectively.
5. I put the dressed burdock pieces in a zip lock plastic bag and store them.
6. I used a Japanese sesame grinding tool that I bought at Daiso. It grinds the sesame to just the right degree for Tataki Gobō. Please see the photo in the post.
7. Nutrition per serving assuming 2 servings.
serving: 114g calories: 146kcal fat: 6.9g (6%) saturated fat: 0.51g (3%) trans fat: 0g polyunsaturated fat: 1.7g monounsaturated fat: 1.5g cholesterol: 0mg (0%) sodium: 546mg (23%) potassium: 273mg (%) carbohydrates: 16.3g (5%) dietary fibre: 4.8g (20%) sugar: 10.2g protein: 3.1g vitamin a: 0% vitamin c: 0% calcium: 0.1 % iron: 0.1%