mitsumame; Japanese dessert with beans, agar jelly, fruit, and syrup
A traditional Japanese sweet consisting of boiled red peas, cubes of agar jelly, assorted fruits, and sweet black sugar syrup poured over the top. Often served chilled.
When summer comes, I start craving chilled mitsumame.
At this traditional dessert shop, mitsumame with rice-flour dumplings is popular.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling for this traditional dessert.
Alternate kanji spelling using 蜜 for 'honey/syrup'; less common but still seen.
From 蜜 (mitsu, 'honey/syrup') + 豆 (mame, 'beans'), referring to the sweet syrup and boiled beans that characterize the dish.