Foraging and Cooking Wild Burdock Roots

Reader Contribution by Leda Meredith
Published on October 27, 2015
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One person’s weeds are another person’s dinner, and burdock (Arctium) is a perfect example of this. Although it is routinely weeded out as an invasive species, in Japan it is cultivated as the delicious root vegetable gobo, and you can sometimes find it for sale as a gourmet ingredient at farmers’ markets. It is delicious in stir-fries (see recipe below).

Identifying and Harvesting Burdock

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