also: ドジョウじる
loach soup
A traditional Japanese soup made with pond loaches (どじょう). Often associated with countryside cuisine and sometimes cooked in a miso or soy-based broth.
In winter, my grandmother would make loach soup for us.
The local specialty of this area is loach soup.
Another loach dish where loaches are simmered with burdock and egg in a shallow pan, distinct from the soup-based どじょう汁.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling; the most common written form.
Katakana spelling for どじょう, often used in menus or for emphasis.
Full kanji spelling using rare characters; mostly seen in traditional or literary contexts.
Compound of どじょう (loach) + 汁 (soup). The word どじょう itself is of uncertain origin, possibly from mimetic or dialectal roots.