anmitsu
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]anmitsu (usually uncountable, plural anmitsu)
- A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly and served in a bowl with anko, boiled peas, often gyūhi and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of sweet black syrup which one pours onto the jelly before eating.
- 2011 July 1, Carey Sweet, “You will want to be in the Noh for omakase”, in The Arizona Republic, 122nd year, number 44, section Z8, page 20:
- Dessert might tempt with butterscotch and white miso pudding next to a dollop of green tea ice cream, or an anmitsu of green tea ice cream, strawberry lychee kanten, adzuki beans and matcha yokan sweet bean paste jelly.
- 2020, Diana Ault, Cook Anime: Eat Like Your Favorite Character—from Bento to Yakisoba, New York, N.Y.: Tiller Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN, page 123:
- Serve the anmitsu with the kuromitsu syrup on the side.
- 2022, Julie Abe, Alliana, Girl of Dragons, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
- Not so close it felt like she could pluck a star out and take a bite. Would it taste sweet and buttery like Isao’s freshly baked loaves? Or was it cold and icy, tasty as jellylike blocks of anmitsu?
- 2023 April 30, Dining Out (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), page 16:
- It also comes with dessert — seasonal potato manju and fruits anmitsu.
