🥩 Chicken Chicken Gobou (Chicken Chicken Burdock)

This dish has spread from school lunches to the entire prefecture and has become the soul food of Yamaguchi Prefecture residents. It is made by mixing bite-sized fried chicken and deep-fried Gobou(=Burdock) root with sweet and spicy sauce, and is popular among children because it goes well with rice. It originated around 1995, when a nutrition teacher at an elementary school asked for original dishes from each family, saying that the recipes for school lunches were becoming "mannered". The dish was invented based on the recipes submitted. At that time, the name "Chicken Chicken Gobou(=Burdock)" was also created, which has a good rhythm and attracts children. The name was chosen to attract children's attention to the ingredients, and to make it easy for children with allergies to understand what ingredients are being used. The taste is made possible by the sweet and spicy sauce made with sugar and soy sauce, and is loved by children and adults alike. The crispy fried chicken meat is satisfying and combines perfectly with the flavor of gobou(=burdock) root, and the inclusion of edamame (=green soybeans) adds a nice colorful touch. It is one of the prefectural foods that spread through school lunches to households and then to towns by word of mouth, and will become a local cuisine in the future.