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Abura-age (油揚げ) is a Japanese food product made from tofu. Thin slices of tofu are deep-fried, and the product can then be split open to form pouches.[1] Abura-age is often used to wrap inari-zushi (稲荷寿司), and it is added to miso soup. It is also added to udon noodle dishes, which are called kitsune-udon because of legends that foxes (kitsune) like deep-fried tofu. Abura-age can also be stuffed, e.g. with nattō, before frying again. There is a thicker variety known as atsu-age (厚揚げ) or nama-age (生揚げ).
The Japanese were the first to develop tofu pouches.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]- Tofu skin
- Tempura – Japanese dish of battered, deep-fried fish or vegetables
- List of deep-fried foods
- List of soy-based foods
Food portal
- Fu (麩)
References
[edit]- ^ Davidson, Alan (20 November 2014). "tofu". In Jaine, Tom (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967733-7.
Bibliography
[edit]- Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991, ISBN 4-7674-2015-6