oden

(JAPAN)

   type of Japanese hotpot, a Japanese one-pot winter dish

   fish, fish cake and vegetables simmered in broth.

   ♦ Oden often contains ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon, konnyaku, and fish cakes. Oden is a popular take-out dish in Japanese convenience stores.

   ♦ Stew-like dish with ingredients such as konnyaku, daikon, chikuwa, hard-boiled eggs, tofu cubes, etc. simmered in flavoured stock.

   ♦ a Japanese one-pot winter dish in which ingredients are simmered in soy sauce based soup.