Matches with reduction cooking, roasting, vegetables, rice cakes, meat seasoning, vermicelli, yukgaejang, kimchi, sesame cracker, and other side dishes, and can be enjoyed by eating out of the bottle like a snack.

It is a fine vegetable starch used as a thickener in Japanese cooking. You can use katakuriko as a coating for fried foods or combined with water to make a paste used for thickening a stir-fry as well as other sauces.