Illustration: In a compact home kitchen, a cook tends a shallow saucepan of simmering sauce. Steam rises steadily, and a dark ring high on the inside wall shows how far the liquid level has fallen. The cook lifts a spoon, letting the remaining glossy sauce descend in a slow, thick ribbon.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

煮に詰つめる

nitsumeru

to boil down

Example sentences

  1. スープがとろっとするまで煮につめてください。

    Boil the soup down until it becomes thick.

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  2. これらを砂糖さとうと共ともに甘あまく煮詰につめ、更さらに砂糖さとうをまぶしてから乾燥かんそうさせて作つくる。

    These are boiled down with sugar, sprinkled with sugar again, and dried.

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

  3. 梅干うめぼしの風味ふうみがよく出でるように軽かるくほぐし、半量はんりょうになるまで弱火よわびで煮詰につめる。

    Lightly break up umeboshi to cause the flavor come out, and reduce over a low heat until it halves in volume.

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

Kanji in 煮詰

  • 煮boil; cookOnシャKunにる・にえる・にやす
  • 詰packed; closeOnキツ・キチKunつめる・つめ・つまる

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