Japanese Cookery Terms M

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maguro – tuna.
makisu - mat made of bamboo strips for making roll sushi.
manju - Sweet bun filled with an.
masu - Trout.
masagu - smelt roe
matsutake - Very rare pine mushroom.
mekajiki - blue Marlin.
meshi - informal word for cooked rice (can also mean "meal.")
meshimono - rice mixed with meat or vegetables.
mirin – sweetened cooking sake.
mirin - sweet rice wine for cooking.
mirugai - Long neck clam.
miso – a fermented paste of soya beans and either barley or rice, with salt - basic to japanese cookery and especially miso soup. Miso is highly flavoured and rich in protein.
mitzutaki - cooked in liquid.

mizu - water.
mochi - Sweet glutinous rice cakes.
mochigome - mochi rice.
mochiko - sweet glutinous rice flour.
momen tofu - "Cottony" bean curd. see tofu
momo - peach.
mori-soba - cold buckwheat noodles served on a bamboo screen.
moyashi - Bean sprouts.
murasaki - Sushi bar term for soy sauce.
mushimono - Steamed foods.
myoga - variety of ginger.