noun
sake-steamed dish; steamed with sake
A Japanese cooking technique where seafood (often fish or clams) is seasoned with salt and sake, then steamed. The term can also refer to the finished dish.
今日の夕食は鯛の酒蒸しにしよう。
Let's make sake-steamed sea bream for dinner tonight.
あさりの酒蒸しは簡単で美味しい。
Sake-steamed clams are easy and delicious.
Compound of 酒 (sake, 'rice wine') and 蒸し (steaming), from the verb 蒸す (to steam).