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Fuki (Japanese Butterbur) Tsukemono Recipes
posted by kumo on Sun, 2011-03-06 23:24
Hi!
I grow fuki (Japanese Butterbur) and have been hunting for recipes that don't call for it canned. I have found a few sites that explain how to prepare it for cooking - salting, boiling, peeling the stalks, etc. - but very few recipes, and no fresh tsukemono/pickle recipes for the stalks, the leaves, or the flower buds/stalks. Do you have, or know where I can find, any?
It is just starting to poke up through the snow so I should have some of the flower stalks soon, with leaf stalks and leaves shortly after that. I planted one root a couple of years ago, and this is the first year there will be enough to harvest.
Thank you so much for two great sites, a great book, and your assistance!
Kumo
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You are very lucky to have butterbur available. I haven't had it ages, but the standard ways to prepare it are either to deep fry it as tempura, which is delicious, or to blanch it and then either cook it in the standard dashi/mirin or sake/soy sauce/sugar liquid. Another way it's often used is blanched, squeezed out, chopped up and mixed with other things in miso. My negimiso recipe can be adapted for this. Fuki needs to be blanched before processing further because as-is it can be quite bitter. Tempura does seem to counteract the bitterness a bit.
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Hello
I have a question, I just bought some fuki from the supermarket (stems only), and I was wondering if it is ok to eat them raw. I thought it was, because it looked like celery, but I wanted to make sure, so I checked the internet. This was one of the sites I stumbled upon. I'm a little surprised to learn that fuki can be very damaging if consumed raw. I'm a little confused now, so I thought I'd ask here to be sure.
Thanks
Raw fuki stems are very bitter and practically inedible (try nibbling on a tiny bit to find out!) I am not sure about damaging, but it could be bad for your digestion. Not to mention your palate.
Raw fuki stems are very bitter and practically inedible (try nibbling on a tiny bit to find out!) I am not sure about damaging, but it could be bad for your digestion. Not to mention your palate.
Hi, and thanks for answering.
Gee, just my luck. While doing grocery shopping today, I said to myself I'm going to try something new, and then I end up buying something I can't eat raw. Typical～
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