food simmered in soy sauce
A cooking method where vegetables or fish are simmered in a soy-sauce-based broth until the liquid reduces and flavors concentrate.
Today's side dish is mackerel simmered in soy sauce.
The simmered daikon my mother makes is superb.
Standard kanji spelling.
Common variant with okurigana つけ.
Irregular okurigana usage; less common.
Compound of 煮 (ni, 'simmering') + 付け (tsuke, 'attaching, applying'), from the verb 煮付ける (nitsukeru, 'to simmer in soy sauce').