pickled in sake lees
Refers to fish or vegetables preserved by pickling in sake lees (sake kasu), a traditional Japanese method that imparts a distinctive flavor.
This sake-lees pickle is perfect with sake.
粕漬けにした魚を焼いて食べた。
I grilled and ate fish that had been pickled in sake lees.
Standard kanji spelling for this food term.
Abbreviated spelling, common in product names and menus.
Search-only kana-kanji mixed form; not a standard written variant.
Rarely used kanji form; 糟 is an older variant of 粕.
Rarely used abbreviated form with the older kanji variant.
Compound of 粕 (kasu, 'sake lees') and 漬け (zuke, 'pickling'). The reading づけ is a rendaku form of 漬け (つけ).