is a fried
tofu
or bean curd is a food prepared by Coagulation (milk), coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness: ''silken'', ''soft'', ''firm'', and ''extra (or super) firm''. It originated in Chin ...
fritter
A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables, or other ingredients which have been Batter (cooking), battered or breading, breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-frying, deep-fried. Fritters ar ...
made with vegetables, such as carrots, lotus roots and
burdock
''Arctium'' is a genus of biennial plants commonly known as burdock, family Asteraceae. Native to Europe and Asia, several species have been widely introduced worldwide. Burdock's clinging properties, in addition to providing an excellent mecha ...
. It may also contain egg. ''Ganmodoki'' means ''pseudo-
goose
A goose (: geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera '' Anser'' (grey geese and white geese) and '' Branta'' (black geese). Some members of the Tadorninae subfamily (e.g., Egy ...
'' ( + ). This is because ganmodoki is said to taste like goose; compare
mock turtle soup Mock may refer to:
Names
*Mock (surname)
*Mock, or Duncan Stump, a member of the band Mock & Toof
*Mock, a character in the Japanese anime series '' Mock & Sweet''
Places
* Mock, Washington, a ghost town
Imitations
* Mockery, imitation to expres ...
. ''Ganmodoki'' is also called ''ganmo'' for short.
In the
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
, ''ganmodoki'' was a stir-fried
konjac dish. A dish similar to the ganmodoki today was made by wrapping chopped up vegetables in tofu (much like a
manjū
is a traditional Japanese confection, usually a small, dense bun with a sweet filling. They come in many shapes and varieties.
The standard manjū has a skin made of flour, and is filled with '' anko'' (sweet azuki bean paste). Some varie ...
) and deep frying it.
In Western Japan, Ganmodoki is called ''hiryōzu'', ''hiryuzu'' or ''hirōsu'', from the
Portuguese word ''
filhós'' or Spanish ''
fillos''.
Gallery
File:Ganmodoki 1 by kina3.jpg, Ganmodoki (right)
See also
*
Oden
is a type of nabemono (Japanese one-pot dishes) consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon or konjac, and processed fishcakes stewed in a light, soy-flavored dashi broth.
Oden was originally what is now commonly call ...
*
List of tofu dishes
This is a list of tofu dishes. Tofu, also called bean curd, is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is a component in many East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines. Tofu dishes
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References
External links
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Tofu dishes