ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mitsumame

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Mitsumame is a noun meaning A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.

Meaning

A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.

Example Sentences

The dessert is mitsumame with ice cream, cut fruit and diced kanten in syrup.
In Asia, agar is used in many traditional dishes, such as red bean jelly, tokoroten noodles and mitsumame.
Shun set a small bowl of mitsumame, a cold gelatin dessert with syrup and mandarin oranges, in front of her.
Konjac has been used to make noodles (shiritaki noodles) and heat-stable gels such as mitsumame, a fruit dessert.

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