Kappodori (Bamboo-Steamed Chicken)
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- Total time
- 75 min
- Level
- Hard
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Ingredients
- 9
About this dish
In the mountains of northern Miyazaki, especially Takachiho, bamboo is called kappo, and this dish fills a section of young green bamboo with chicken, burdock, shiitake, carrot, garlic chives, and garlic before setting it over charcoal.
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The ingredients steam in their own moisture and pick up the scent of the bamboo. It is an outdoor dish, made over glowing coals rather than tall flames, with sound, untreated bamboo meant for cooking.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Set a charcoal grill securely on a flat, heatproof outdoor surface and keep extinguishing water or an extinguisher nearby.
Choose sound, untreated young green bamboo intended for cooking. Saw an opening in the center between two joints, retain the cut piece as a lid, and wash the bamboo inside and out.
- 2
Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces.
Shave the burdock into thin strips and cut the garlic chives into 2 to 3 cm lengths. Thinly slice the shiitake and garlic, and cut the carrot into fine matchsticks.
- 3
Combine the chicken, burdock, garlic chives, shiitake, carrot, and garlic.
Add the soy sauce and salt and pepper, then mix until the seasoning coats everything evenly.
- 4
Pack the seasoned mixture into the washed bamboo tube without compressing it to the rim.
Set the cut bamboo piece over the opening like a lid, leaving a path for steam. Never seal the tube airtight.
- 5
When the charcoal has settled into glowing coals, set the tube on the grill with the opening facing upward and steam-roast it slowly. Keep tall flames away from the bamboo. Midway through cooking, use long tongs and heatproof gloves to lift the lid and check the cooking.
- 6
Remove the tube from the heat when the center of the thickest chicken piece reaches 75°C and no pink flesh remains.
Wearing heatproof gloves, move it to a stable trivet and rest for 5 minutes. Open the lid away from the face so the hot steam escapes safely, then serve. Check the seasoning only after confirming the chicken is cooked.
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- 일본 농림수산성 うちの郷土料理
「郷土料理集」（JA宮崎県女性組織協議会） · Checked: 2026-08-11
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