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mitsumame

mitsumame noun: a Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.

mitsumame: a Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas...
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Noun

mitsumame (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.
    • Shun set a small bowl of mitsumame, a cold gelatin dessert with syrup and mandarin oranges, in front of her.2001, yumeko, Sphere, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 73
    • Konjac has been used to make noodles (shiritaki noodles) and heat-stable gels such as mitsumame, a fruit dessert.2003, Robert Ronzio with Kennedy Associates, The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health (Facts On File Library of Health and Living), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page...

Examples of mitsumame in a sentence

  • The dessert is mitsumame with ice cream, cut fruit and diced kanten in syrup.2003 January 29, “Japanese Cuisine”, in The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C., page 1C:
  • Cream mitsumame ($4.99) contains ice cream and a Japanese-style canned fruit cocktail with a few beans in sugar syrup.2005 August 26, Helen Wu, tgif (The Honolulu Advertiser), page 22, columns 4–5:
  • Desserts include mitsumame ($6.50) — resilient cubes of unflavoured gelatin with vanilla ice cream and fruit cocktail — as well as a crème brûlée trio ($9).2005 November 16, Judy Gerstel, “Less is more shouldn’t apply to the servers”, in Toronto Star, page C5, column 2:
  • In Asia, agar is used in many traditional dishes, such as red bean jelly, tokoroten noodles and mitsumame.2010, Stefan Gates, Stefan Gates on E Numbers, Octopus Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Origin of mitsumame

From Japanese みつまめ (mitsumame).

Questions about mitsumame

What does mitsumame mean?
Mitsumame means a Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.
How do you use mitsumame in a sentence?
The dessert is mitsumame with ice cream, cut fruit and diced kanten in syrup.
What part of speech is mitsumame?
Mitsumame is a noun.

Words near mitsumame in the dictionary

  1. Mitsui
  2. Mitsuis
  3. Mitsuko
  4. mitsukurinid
  5. mitsukurinids
  6. mitsumame
  7. mitsumata
  8. Mitsunobu reaction
  9. Mitsunobu reactions
  10. Mitsuye
  11. Mitsuyuki

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