Agenome (Means fried foods)
Karaage: Fried meats with a Japanese character, especially chicken with soy sauce.
Korokke (croquette): mashed potato and creamy vegetables with a seafood filling.
Kushiage: Meat fried on a skewer.
Tempura: chopped vegetables, seafood and fried meat.
Tonkatsu: Fried pork rib.
Donburi: bowl of cooked rice with seasoned toppings.
Oyakodon: chicken and egg.
Gyudon: seasoned beef.
Yakimono (grilled)
Gyoza: dumplings with pork filling.
Kushiyaki: meat and vegetable skewers.
Okonomiyaki: battered fried cakes with tasty toppings.
Omu-raisu: rice omelet.
Omu-soba: omelet with yakisoba.
Takoyaki: spiral dumpling passed in batter (a dough with a soft consistency used to wrap certain foods and then fry them)
and fried with octopus stuffing.
Teriyaki: Meat of fish, chicken or vegetables soaked in sweet soy sauce.
Unagi: flavored eel.
Yakiniku: plate meat.
Yakisoba: Japanese-style fried dough.
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Yakitori: chicken skewers.
Nabemono (boiled)
Sukiyaki: mixture of pasta, minced beef, egg and vegetables.
Shabu-shabu: pasta with vegetables and shrimp or beef.
Motsunabe: cow and vegetable entrails.
Nikujaga: cow stew.
Sashimi (raw meat or fish)
Fugu: Sliced (poisonous) balloonfish.
Ikizukuri: Sashimi alive.
Tataki: tuna grilled on charcoal or raw, thinly cut.
Basashi: horse meat sashimi.
Rebasashi: raw veal liver.
Shikasashi: Venison sashimi.
Sushi (seasoned rice balls)
Chirashizushi: sushi in a bowl.
Inarizushi: tofu cone.
Makizushi: sushi wrapped in nori (dehydrated seaweed leaf) in the shape of a cylinder.
Nigirizushi: hand-shaped sushi.
Oshizushi: press molded sushi.
Narezushi: old-fashioned sushi, fish stuffed with salt.
Temakizushi: hand-rolled sushi, corresponds to a cone composed of a dry seaweed leaf filled with rice and other ingredients that can be eaten by hand.
By Eduardo de Freitas
Brazil School Team
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
FREITAS, Eduardo de. "The most famous Japanese dishes"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/japao/os-pratos-japoneses-mais-famosos.htm. Accessed on June 28, 2021.
