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Media: Tororo. Tororo (Japanese: 薯蕷, とろろ) is a Japanese side dish made from grating raw yams such as yamaimo (Japanese mountain yam) or nagaimo (Chinese yam). The flavorless dish uses ingredients such as wasabi (a pungent paste made from the wasabi plant), dashi (Japanese stocks), and chopped spring onions, to give it more flavor.
Wasabi is mainly used to make wasabi paste, which is a pungent, spicy condiment eaten with foods like sushi. The part used for wasabi paste has been characterized as the rhizome or the stem, or the "rhizome plus the base part of the stem". [15] [16] [17] Stores generally sell only this part of the plant.
Mirin. Mirin (みりん also 味醂）is an essential condiment used in Japanese cuisine. [1] It is a kind of rice wine similar to sake, but with a lower alcohol content—14% [2] instead of 20%. There are three general types. The first is hon mirin (lit. true mirin), [3] which contains alcohol. The second is shio mirin, which contains alcohol ...
Wasabi sauce, which is a creamy wasabi-like condiment made with horseradish, oil, eggs, sugar, and corn starch, is even easier to find at the grocery store; though you can use it however you ...
The study published in the journal Nutrients investigated the positive impact of wasabi (a plant that is often made into a paste and served alongside sushi as a spicy condiment), on cognitive ...
Origin. The word sashimi means 'pierced body', i.e., "刺身" = sashimi, where 刺 し = sashi (pierced, stuck) and 身 = mi (body, meat). This word dates from the Muromachi period (1336-1573) and was possibly coined when the word "切る" = kiru (cut), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than a samurai.
Onigiri (おにぎり): balls of rice with a filling in the middle. Japanese equivalent of sandwiches. Sekihan (赤飯): white rice cooked with azuki beans [2] (小豆) to glutinous rice. (literally red rice) Takikomi gohan (炊き込み御飯): Japanese-style pilaf cooked with various ingredients and flavored with soy, dashi, etc.
Wagashi (和菓子, wa-gashi) is a traditional Japanese confection made of mochi, anko (azuki bean paste), and fruit. Wagashi is typically made from plant-based ingredients with an emphasis on seasonality, and generally making use of cooking methods that pre-date Western influence in Japan. [1] It is often served with green tea.