simmered dish; food cooked by boiling or stewing
A broad category of Japanese dishes where ingredients are simmered in seasoned broth. Common in home cooking and traditional cuisine.
今日の夕食は、肉じゃがと大根の煮物です。
Tonight's dinner is nikujaga and simmered daikon.
Tonight's dinner is simmered daikon.
The simmered dishes my grandmother makes are deeply flavored and very delicious.
母は毎晩煮物を作ってくれる。
My mother makes a simmered dish for us every night.
I turned the leftover vegetables into a simmered dish.
煮物 covers simmered dishes broadly, whereas 煮付け refers to a specific style of simmering fish or vegetables in a sweet-savory soy sauce base.
煮物 is the broad term for any dish simmered in seasoned liquid, while おでん refers specifically to the soy-dashi hot pot with daikon, eggs, and other classic ingredients.
煮物 (simmered dish) and 干物 (dried fish or seafood) share the '〜物' pattern but describe completely different cooking methods.
煮物 (simmered dish) and 漬物 (pickled food) look similar due to the shared '〜物' ending but are made by very different processes.
Standard kanji form; common in news and everyday use.
Search-only kanji form; not a standard spelling.
Compound of 煮 (ni, 'simmering', the continuative form of 煮る) + 物 (mono, 'thing'). Literally 'simmered thing'.