Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a cook gathers napa cabbage, a leek, shiitake mushrooms, tofu, and pieces of fish around a waiting hot pot. Some cabbage remains whole while cut pieces sit beside the knife, and the cook is lifting a mushroom from its tray toward the pot.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

食しょく材ざい

shokuzai

food ingredient

Example sentences

  1. トマトは生なまでも、煮にても、焼やいてもおいしい食材しょくざいです。

    Raw, simmered, or grilled, tomatoes are a delicious ingredient.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 生姜しょうがは体からだを温あたためる食材しょくざいなので、冷ひえ性しょうの人ひとにはお勧すすめです。

    Ginger is a food that warms up the body, so it is recommended for people sensitive to cold.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. アワビは高級こうきゅう食材しょくざいで、コリコリした歯はざわりが特徴とくちょう。

    Awabi is an expensive ingredient characterized by a firm, almost crunchy texture.

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

Kanji in 食材

  • 食eat; foodOnショク・ジキKunくう・くらう・たべる
  • 材lumber; logOnザイ

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