also: ぬかごめし
noun
rice cooked with yam bulblets
A traditional Japanese dish where small aerial tubers (むかご) from yam plants are cooked together with rice, often seasoned with soy sauce and sake.
See also: むかご
秋になると、母がむかご飯を作ってくれる。
In autumn, my mother makes rice with yam bulblets for us.
むかご飯は素朴な味わいで、山の幸を感じさせる。
Rice with yam bulblets has a rustic flavor that evokes the bounty of the mountains.
Refers to the yam bulblets themselves, not the rice dish.
Compound of むかご (yam bulblets) and 飯 (rice). The word むかご itself is of uncertain origin, possibly related to むかご (零余子), an old term for these aerial tubers.