Sunday, May 5, 2013

タケノコ掘り - Digging TAKENOKO

4月の第3週に初めてのタケノコ狩り。小ぶりなのを2つゲット。
名人でも掘り出してみないと大きさはわからないそう。

真冬のような寒さで凍えてしまったけど、
採れたてタケノコは下処理しなくてもエグさもなくて、OK!
皮付きのままアルミフォイルに包んでオーブンで20分位蒸し焼きにするだけで、 とても美味しいの。
その後、ワカメと一緒におダシで煮て春らしい煮物にもしてみました。

It was the first time to go and get "TAKENOKO" bamboo shoots in the bamboo grove under the shivering cold weather in April. 
Even a TAKENOKO master is not sure how big it is until you dig it out.  I got 2 small ones.


They were easy to cook and tasted really nice as the fresh ones have much less bitterness without precooking to skim the scum.

Just put fresh unhusked & foil-wrapped TAKENOKO into the oven and you can enjoy nicely steamed & roasted ones after about 20 min.  

After that, I also boiled and seasoned them with Dashi & Wakame - one of typical Japanese dishes feeling Spring.
 









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