Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a cook lifts the lid from a metal steamer containing several whole sweet potatoes. The top basket is slightly raised above the lower pot, making its perforated base and the water underneath visible. Steam curls around the potatoes while none sits in the water.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

蒸ふかす

fukasu

to steam food

Example sentences

  1. その後ご、蒸ふかす又または焼やくことによって熱ねつを通とおす。

    It is then heated by steaming or roasting.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. サツマイモを蒸ふかす代かわりに茹ゆでたり、砂糖さとうの他ほかに少量しょうりょうの塩しおや寒天かんてんなどを添加てんかすることもある。

    Sometimes a sweet potato is boiled instead of being steamed, or a little salt or agar may be added other than sugar.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 耐熱容器たいねつようきに出だし汁じると鶏卵けいらんを混まぜたものを注そそぎいれ、蒸むし器きで蒸ふかす。

    Mix the dashi broth and chicken eggs, pour into a heatproof container and steam in a steamer pot.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 蒸

  • 蒸steam; heatOnジョウ・セイKunむす・むれる・むらす

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