For Osechi (New Year's Feast) Decorative Lotus Root Slices
For Osechi (New Year's Feast) Decorative Lotus Root Slices

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Great recipe for For Osechi (New Year's Feast) Decorative Lotus Root Slices. i wanted to prepare a charming osechi (New Year's feast dish), so I came up with this. I often cook with my daughter! Pounded Burdock Root with Sesame Sauce (Tataki Gobo) たたきごぼう.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook for osechi (new year's feast) decorative lotus root slices using 1 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make For Osechi (New Year's Feast) Decorative Lotus Root Slices:
  1. Take 1 Lotus root

Scrape the skin off the burdock root with the back of knife. After rinsing, cut it into thin. Of all the annual holidays in Japan, the New Year (o-shogatsu) is often spoken of as the most Japanese of celebrations. With a history reaching back a thousand years, the traditional New Year's celebration is sprinkled with symbolism, and that symbolism is particularly evident in typical New Year's food.

Instructions to make For Osechi (New Year's Feast) Decorative Lotus Root Slices:
  1. Chop off the ends of the lotus root.
  2. Peel off the skin.
  3. Cut into easy to handle sections. (If they are too thin, they will break when slicing, so they should be on the thick side.)
  4. Make shallow cuts around the edge between the holes.
  5. Using a knife, diagonally carve into the shallow cut from both sides.
  6. Even out the sharp edges to make a flower shape.
  7. Slice into desired thicknesses, then they're done!

A dish served throughout the year, chikuzenni, a simmered dish of chicken and vegetables, is often spruced up for the New Year by cutting the vegetables and konnyaku (a gelatinous food made from the root of the konjac plant) into intricate designs. Generally speaking, root vegetables symbolize a long, happy life like their roots that stretch. To supplement the decorative aspect, I made surenkon [lotus root marinated in sweetened vinegar] in a celebratory color pair – white and red. For the red/pink version, I put a few beet slices in its marinade and by the next morning each piece of lotus root was beautifully tinted a faint pink. Another New Year's Day has come and gone.

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