Assorted Vegetables with Sun-Dried Radish

Gomoku Kiri-Boshi Daikon

This recipe uses a few Japanese ingredients that you might not be familar with.

Kiriboshi- Daikon, sun-dried daikon radish strips:

Hijiki, a dried sea vegetable:







Shirataki, noodles formed from konnyaku yams:


Shirataki has a gelatinous or slithery texture to it. It's a naturally non-caloric food.



In this recipe, the dried ingredients are reconstituted and steamed with the shirataki, fresh carrots, and fresh green beans. The seasonings include aromatic sesame seed oil, sugar, soy-sauce and shimchimi togarashi (a Japanese spice mixture that includes dried chile, orange peel, white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, sansho pepper, nori, and dried giner).

The result looks like a noodle dish, like Korean chap chae. The strands of dried daikon, hijiki, and shirataki provide interesting contrasting mouthfeel. The carrots and green beans provide color and crunch.