Gobo (burdock root) makes its way into various salads and side dishes here in Japan. It's a fairly chewy addition. I enjoy it. We recently found a loaf of gobo french bread, with gobo baked into it and black sesame seeds heavy on the outside. The gobo was quite moist inside the bread, and very good.
When you see it in grocery stores here, it is about as thick as your thumb, and fairly long -- often 50 or 60 centimeters, roughly? One long, dark root. Skin it, slice it up, and cook it -- very good.
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Date: 2010-07-30 12:44 am (UTC)When you see it in grocery stores here, it is about as thick as your thumb, and fairly long -- often 50 or 60 centimeters, roughly? One long, dark root. Skin it, slice it up, and cook it -- very good.