roasted beans; parched beans
Typically soybeans dry-roasted in a pan; a traditional snack or ingredient, often associated with Setsubun (節分) or tea ceremony sweets.
We scatter roasted soybeans on Setsubun.
祖母が作る炒り豆は香ばしくておいしい。
The roasted beans my grandmother makes are fragrant and delicious.
Standard spelling using 炒る (to roast) with regular okurigana.
Alternate kanji 煎る (to roast) is also used, though 炒り豆 is more common.
Irregular okurigana usage; the reading remains いりまめ.
Compound of 炒り (iri, the continuative form of 炒る 'to roast') + 豆 (mame, 'bean').