also: ぶりだいこん
yellowtail and daikon simmered in soy sauce
A classic Japanese home-cooked dish; yellowtail (buri) and daikon radish are simmered together in a soy-sauce-based broth until the flavors meld.
In winter, my mother often made buri daikon for us.
The buri daikon at this izakaya is superb, with the flavors deeply soaked in.
Common mixed kanji-katakana spelling; the fish name is often written in katakana.
Hiragana spelling for the fish part; less common but still seen.
Full kanji spelling; 鰤 is a non-jōyō kanji and rarely used in everyday writing.
Compound of ブリ (buri, 'yellowtail') and 大根 (daikon, 'daikon radish'), describing the two main ingredients of the dish.