vinegar-dressed dish; vinegar dressing
Refers both to the act of dressing ingredients with vinegar and to the resulting dish. Common in Japanese cuisine, often with vegetables or seafood.
I made a vinegar-dressed dish with cucumber and wakame seaweed.
This vinegar-dressed dish is light and delicious.
酢の物 is a broader category of vinegared dishes, often including sunomono; 酢和え emphasizes the dressing process.
Standard kanji spelling.
Rare variant using 韲, a non-jōyō kanji.
Compound of 酢 (su, 'vinegar') and 和え (ae, 'dressing' or 'dressed food', from 和える aeru).