DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Yanagawa Nabe
Also known as: 柳川鍋
The Nakamura Gakuen University recipe published by MAFF stews selected loach with burdock and shiitake, pouring beaten egg over the same pan and finishing with mitsuba and optional sansho.
About Yanagawa Nabe
Research draft based on the references below. These notes describe particular recipes and presentations; ingredient connections are still being reviewed.
MAFF’s Fukuoka entry presents Yanagawa nabe as loach stewed with burdock and finished with egg. This account selects the Nakamura Gakuen University recipe and its loach choice rather than the offered anago substitution.
The loach is opened and prepared before boiling in a sauce of supplied dashi, mirin, light soy sauce and the method’s added sugar. Sake is listed separately, but its addition step is absent from the written method.
Burdock shavings and sliced shiitake line a shallow earthenware pot. The same loach and prepared sauce are arranged over those vegetables.
Beaten egg is poured in, followed by mitsuba, with the written recipe finishing the egg through residual heat. Optional powdered sansho is the selected final spice.
The entry describes tender loach, fluffy egg and a sweet-and-spicy flavour, with restaurant variations in the region. It distinguishes the egg-topped dish from other loach-pot preparations rather than treating their different formulas as one recipe.
Ingredients in Yanagawa Nabe
Recorded ingredient connections, rather than a complete recipe. Explore an ingredient for more detail.
- Loachprotein
- Burdock Rootbase
- Dashi stockbase
- Soy Saucesauce
- Mirinseasoning
- Sugarsweetener
- Waterbase
- Eggbinder
- Burdockbase
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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Associations in the cited sources
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- Cooking traditions
- Fukuoka Yanagawa / Nakamura Gakuen University loach-and-egg recipe