Spring Simmered Bamboo Shoots with Bonito Flakes
Spring Simmered Bamboo Shoots with Bonito Flakes

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Cooked in classic Japanese seasonings, Simmered Bamboo Shoots is a simple and elegant dish to enjoy during springtime when fresh bamboo shoots are in season. Crunchy and savory, they make a great side dish or accompaniment for drinks. Bamboo shoots, or takenoko in Japanese, are a commonly used vegetable in Japanese cuisine.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have spring simmered bamboo shoots with bonito flakes using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Spring Simmered Bamboo Shoots with Bonito Flakes:
  1. Get 2 small Boiled bamboo shoots
  2. Get 2 tbsp Sugar
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp + 1 teaspoon Soy sauce
  4. Prepare 2 tsp Mirin
  5. Make ready 400 ml Dashi stock
  6. Get 1 You can substitute the dashi stock with 2 cups water and 1 teaspoon dashi stock granules
  7. Get 5 grams Bonito flakes (fine ones)
  8. Make ready 1 of each Oil

Let's enjoy their sweet, slightly crunchy and delicate earthy flavor! Takenoko Gohan (Steamed rice with bamboo shoots) Sansai (wild mountain veggies) Tempura; Tosani (Simmered bamboo shoots with bonito flakes) Spring Simmered Bamboo Shoots with Bonito Flakes. Bamboo shoots go well with oil, so we normally stir-fry them before simmering. I've been eating this dish since I was little..

Instructions to make Spring Simmered Bamboo Shoots with Bonito Flakes:
  1. Refer tofor boiling the bamboo shoots, and remove the bitterness.
  2. Cut the bamboo shoots in half, and slice into 7 mm thick quarter-rounds. Cut the bamboo shoot tops in half or quarters.
  3. Add the bamboo shoots and bonito flakes in heated oil, stir-fry, and coat everything with oil. Be sure not to burn them.
  4. Pour in the dashi stock to Step 3, add the sugar, and simmer for about 5 minutes over medium heat.
  5. Add rest of the seasoning ingredients, and simmer for 15-20 minutes, stirring and flipping them over with cooking chopsticks from time to time. (The bamboo shoots won't break apart much while simmering.)
  6. Once the sauce has reduced to less than 1/3 the original amount, turn off the heat, and leave for a while to let the bamboo shoots absorb the flavors.

Cooked in classic Japanese seasonings, Simmered Bamboo Shoots is a simple and elegant dish to enjoy during springtime when fresh bamboo shoots are in season. Crunchy and savory, they make a great side dish or accompaniment for drinks. Bamboo shoots, or takenoko in Japanese,are a commonly used vegetable in Japanese cuisine. This one is called "Tosa-ni" 土佐煮. Tosa is southernmost prefecture in the island of shikoku 四国 which is famous for bonito or katsuo 鰹 and dried and shaven bonito flakes called "katsuo-bushi" 鰹節.

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