mirin
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- noun
- /ˈmɪrɪn/
- For a savory glaze, mix mirin with soy sauce and brush it on the grilled fish.
- soy sauce and mirin
- sake and mirin
- rice wine mirin
Examples
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To enhance the sauce's flavor, add a splash of mirin while simmering.
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This mirin (ajino haha) is made only from rice, malt rice, and salt.
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I see mirin que bonito, so we're just going to go ahead and put it like this.
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This mentsuyu contains only mirin, beet sugar, and salt (no traces of any grains).
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Then uncover, add low sodium soy sauce (1/8 cup) (and maybe some Mirin to sweeten a bit) and increase the heat again.
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Place the broth, onions, mushrooms, kombu, garlic, soy sauce, and mirin in a medium saucepan and turn the heat on high.
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When I finally got up, I sliced some beef heart thinly, then cooked it with sliced onions and cabbage in soy sauce and mirin.
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4 cloves garlic (crushed), 2 teaspoons soy sauce (like Bragg's), 2 teaspoons mirin (sweet cooking wine)
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You can improve the stir-fry by adding a tablespoon of mirin to the vegetables.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mirin comes from Japanese and basically means a 'sweet sake', a sweet rice wine used in cooking. So, the name reminds you that mirin adds a gentle sweetness and a glossy shine to food.