The history, culture, and lifestyles of the area are mixed and condensed in one plate of a local dish that has been passed for generations in mountain and fishing villages throughout Japan. We will introduce various unknown local dishes, also known as the soul food of the Japanese people.

Imomochi

Wakayama

The rice cake dish you enjoyed as principal food

Imomochi

A mountain presses the back for Kumano-nada coast, and there is little land which suits rice making, but the sweet potato is easy to make with Hirami of a red earth (plateau), and something with the strong sweetness is harvested. The daily meal which is Higashi-muro seaside formerly, sweet potato and wheat are the center. By potato rice cake and undertaking, rice with other potatoes, boiling drying potatoes and rice cake from HO SHIGO, etc..

Recipi of cuisin

  • Sweet potato
  • Glutinous rice
  • Soybean flour
1.
Glutinous rice is washed and it's put in a night water.
2.
Sweet potato peels skin, cuts it into the suitable size and removes the bitterness.
3.
I cut the stem of(1) in water, steam with(2) and pound rice cake by the point which sticks.
4.
I expand soybean flour into the feed limit, round(3) in the suitable size and cover with soybean flour.
※ When rounding rice cake, bean jam of adzuki beans may be put in.

Information provided by : Wakayama-ken Marine Products Division of agriculture and forestry Agricultural production bureau The fruit gardening department

Kashi

Local cuisine

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