Abura-age

Abura-age

Abura-age, or thin slices of fried tofu
Type	Tofu
Place of origin	Japan
Main ingredients	Tofu
Similar dishes	Tofu skin
Media: Abura-age

Abura-age (油揚げ, lit. 'oil-fried') 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. 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).

Gallery

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  Inarizushi (bottom)
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  Kitsune udon
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  Inari udon
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  Kinchaku, stuffed tofu pouch in soup
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  With katsuobushi flakes
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  Atsu-age, a thicker variant

See also

• 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)

Bibliography

• Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991, ISBN 4-7674-2015-6