noun
roasted beans; parched beans
Typically soybeans dry-roasted in a pan; a traditional snack or ingredient, often associated with Setsubun (節分) or tea ceremony sweets.
節分には炒り豆をまく。
We scatter roasted soybeans on Setsubun.
祖母が作る炒り豆は香ばしくておいしい。
The roasted beans my grandmother makes are fragrant and delicious.
Compound of 炒り (iri, the continuative form of 炒る 'to roast') + 豆 (mame, 'bean').