Pork Tsukune Patties with Lotus Root for Sports Day or Cherry Blossom Viewing

Name: Pork Tsukune Patties with Lotus Root for Sports Day or Cherry Blossom Viewing
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 stalks Thin green onions; 200 grams Ground pork; 100 grams Lotus root; 1 dash Salt and pepper; 1 tbsp Katakuriko; 3 Flower-shaped boiled carrot slices; 2 tbsp ◎Soy sauce; 2 tbsp ◎Mirin; 1 ◎White sesame seeds

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When you're preparing a lunchbox for a sports day or other special occasion it's easier if most preparations can be completed the day before. You won't have much time on the actual day so I made these tsukune patties a small size to reduce the cooking time.

I purposefully cut the lotus root into cubes so you can enjoy the crunch texture. Recipe by shoko

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I purposefully cut the lotus root into cubes so you can enjoy the crunch texture. Recipe by shoko

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Ingredients

3 servings

2stalks Thin green onions
200 gramsGround pork
100 gramsLotus root
1 dashSalt and pepper
1 tbspKatakuriko
3Flower-shaped boiled carrot slices
2 tbsp◎Soy sauce
2 tbsp◎Mirin
1◎White sesame seeds

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Steps

1

Chop the green onion into thin rounds and the lotus root into 5 mm cubes. Mix these well with the ground pork, season with salt and pepper and shape into small bite-size patties.
2

Heat some vegetable oil in a frying pan and cook both sides of the patties.
3

Drizzle over some soy sauce and mirin from above, mix in and finish with a sprinkle of sesame seeds.
4

Pack these tsukune patties together with some flower-shaped carrot slices boiled in salt to create a lovely colourful lunchbox.