Abura-age

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. 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.

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)

References

Bibliography

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