Oden

Oden (おでん, or 関東煮) is one of the Japanese stewing foods. Oden contains a lot of ingredients in seasoned soup. Ingredients and soup are different by area, and shop.[1] Nowadays, Oden is also sold at convenience stores.[2]

Ingredients of Oden

Popular ingredients

  • Daikon (Japanese radish).[3] It is peeled and sliced thickly, also called King of Oden.
  • Boiled egg, generally quail or hen's egg.
  • Shirataki, whitish strings of konnyaku.
  • Atsu-Age, a fried bean curd made of Tofu.
  • Tofu
  • Potato

References

  1. Philip Kendall (5 September 2014). "A diner's guide to oden: Japan's weird-looking, super-popular winter dish". Rocket News. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  2. "Oden: Japanese hotchpotch". All In Japan. 22 February 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  3. "The American Heritage Dictionary entry: daikon". ahdictionary.com. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. Retrieved 2020-08-09.