Ukogi no Horohoro Chopped Shoots, Daikon, and Walnuts

Ukogi no Horohoro Chopped Shoots, Daikon, and Walnuts

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Total time
25 min
Level
Easy
Servings
2 servings
Ingredients
5

About this dish

Ukogi horohoro blanches edible young ukogi shoots, minces them finely, and mixes them with miso-pickled radish and walnuts.

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Use only cultivated ukogi shoots sold for eating and remove thorns and tough stems. Swish through two changes of cold water and drain in a clean sieve. Boil 1L water with 5g additional blanching salt. Blanch 15g ukogi shoots for 30 seconds, transfer immediately to ice water, and squeeze firmly with both hands once cold. Finely chop the blanched ukogi, 10g miso-pickled daikon, and 20g walnuts separately to about 3mm, just coarser than rice grains. Cut the walnuts from two directions so no large pieces remain. Toss the three ingredients loosely with chopsticks. Taste the salt from the pickled daikon, then season gradually with up to 5ml soy sauce and 1g salt and divide into two bowls.

Instructions

Read the steps as a cooking flow: prep, heat, seasoning, doneness control, and finish.

4 steps
  1. 1
    Step

    Use only cultivated ukogi shoots sold for eating and remove thorns and tough stems.

    Swish through two changes of cold water and drain in a clean sieve.

  2. 2
    Season

    Boil 1L water with 5g additional blanching salt.

    Blanch 15g ukogi shoots for 30 seconds, transfer immediately to ice water, and squeeze firmly with both hands once cold.

  3. 3
    Prep

    Finely chop the blanched ukogi, 10g miso-pickled daikon, and 20g walnuts separately to about 3mm, just coarser than rice grains.

    Cut the walnuts from two directions so no large pieces remain.

  4. 4
    Season

    Toss the three ingredients loosely with chopsticks.

    Taste the salt from the pickled daikon, then season gradually with up to 5ml soy sauce and 1g salt and divide into two bowls.

Practical Cooking Checks

The cues that matter most while cooking.

Key technique
Edible young ukogi blanched for thirty seconds
Finish cue
Toss the three ingredients loosely with chopsticks.
Avoid this
Do not forage; use only young shoots sold as food.
Substitution
Other nuts may cross-react, so confirm a safe substitute rather than assuming.

Cooking decision evidence

Calculated Charim data and applicable official food safety guidance.

This recipe

25min, 5 ingredients

Category median

25min, 8 ingredients

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Tips

Wild ukogi can be confused with other plants and its thorns can injure. Do not forage; use only young shoots sold as food.
Anyone with walnut allergy should not eat this dish. Other nuts may cross-react, so confirm a safe substitute rather than assuming.

Estimated nutrition (per serving)

Calories
120
kcal
Protein
3
g
Carbs
5
g
Fat
10
g