Taste spring with Simmered Japanese butterbur & Rice cooked with butterbur Vigorous vegetables in Hokuryu, Minorichi-cho!

Thursday, May 16, 2024

We tasted Japanese butterbur stew and takikomi gohan (rice cooked with butterbur) using butterbur purchased at Minorikchi Hokuryu!

Simmered Japanese butterbur & Rice cooked with butterbur

Simmered Japanese butterbur & Rice cooked with butterbur
Simmered Japanese butterbur & Rice cooked with butterbur

Simmered Japanese butterbur

Slowly cook Japanese butterbur with shredded carrot in white soup stock, mirin, soy sauce, water, and hawk's claw.

Simmered Japanese butterbur
Simmered Japanese butterbur

steamed rice mixed with vegetables and meat or fish

For Fukki no Gohan, rice is cooked by seasoning rice with carrots & butterbur & kombu.

Rice cooked with Japanese butterbur
Rice cooked with Japanese butterbur

Soup: A soup with a variety of medicinal herbs and ingredients.

Medicinal soup with a variety of ingredients
Medicinal soup with a variety of ingredients

Accompanying pickles: Takana and kikurage mushrooms stewed in soy sauce

simmered takana and kikurage
simmered takana and kikurage

Enjoy spring by tasting plenty of "Fukki," a seasonal vegetable that is sure to make you feel the arrival of spring!

Taste the coming of spring!
Taste the coming of spring!

Let the weather be fine! and prayed to the teru teru bozu.

Let's hope for better weather!
Let's hope for better weather!

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◇ Reporting and writing by Ikuko Terauchi (Photography and editorial assistance by Noboru Terauchi) 

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