Gonza (Daikon Simmered with Flattened Soybeans)
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- Total time
- 45 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Ingredients
- 5
About this dish
Uchimame are soybeans softened, flattened with a wooden mallet, and dried, and because they are already thin and split they cook alongside daikon in the same pot.
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This simmer from eastern Fukui City, also called gonji namasu, was once tied to Hoonko gatherings and ceremonies and is now everyday home food all year.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Peel the daikon and cut it into thick matchsticks.
Trim the carrot and cut it into slightly thinner, shorter matchsticks so both vegetables soften at about the same time.
- 2
Layer the daikon in the bottom of a pot, followed by the carrot and uchimame.
Add 100 ml water, cover the ingredients with a drop lid, and set the pot over medium heat.
- 3
Once the water boils, reduce to medium-low and continue simmering under the drop lid.
Cook until the daikon turns translucent and an uchimame piece crushes easily when pressed.
- 4
Pour the soy sauce around the edge of the pot and mix gently without breaking the vegetables.
Replace the drop lid and simmer for another 5 to 8 minutes, stopping when the seasoning has penetrated and only a little liquid remains.
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- 일본 농림수산성 うちの郷土料理
「ほっとするね ふるさとの味」（福井県） · Checked: 2026-08-11
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