Grilled sea urchin - Uniyaki

Japanese: ウニ焼き - うにやき
Grilled sea urchin - Uniyaki

...As Saibara says, "What should be served as a side dish? Abalone, Sadao, or Kase?", it has been a favorite food for sake since ancient times, and in the Edo period, sea urchin from Hizen, Satsuma, Echizen, and other areas were considered to be of high quality, with Echizen especially famous for its deliciousness. As for dishes, sea urchin dengaku and sea urchin grilling were popular. The former is salted sea urchin diluted with sake, spread on tofu and grilled, and the latter is not only spread on fish as in the present day, but also involves putting sake in a clay pot, laying thinly shaved bonito flakes, placing salted sea urchin on top, heating it, and eating it when it becomes fluffy. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "grilled sea urchin" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…催馬楽(さいばら)に〈御肴に何よけむ鮑(あわび)栄螺(さだお)か可世(かせ)よけむ〉とあるように,古くから酒のさかなとして喜ばれたもので,江戸時代には肥前,薩摩,越前などの産が良品とされ,なかんずく越前のそれは美味をうたわれた。料理としては,ウニ田楽,ウニ焼きなどがよく行われたようである。前者は塩ウニを酒でのばして豆腐に塗って焼くもの,後者は現在のように魚などに塗って焼くもののほか,土なべなどに酒を入れ,細く削った鰹節を敷き,その上に塩ウニをのせて火にかけ,ふわふわになったところで食べるというものであった。…

※「ウニ焼き」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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