boar meat hot pot; boar stew
A Japanese hot pot dish featuring thinly sliced wild boar meat, often cooked with vegetables and miso or soy-based broth. The name comes from the meat's arrangement resembling peony flowers.
In winter, boar hot pot becomes a local specialty in mountainous areas.
Botan-nabe is a dish where thinly sliced boar meat is simmered in a miso-based broth.
Full kanji spelling; 牡丹 (peony) is used for the visual resemblance of sliced boar meat to peony petals.
Common mixed kanji-kana spelling; ぼたん is often written in kana.
From 牡丹 (peony) + 鍋 (hot pot). The sliced boar meat is arranged to resemble peony petals, giving the dish its name.