Kakigōri
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Kakigōri with green tea flavor | |
| Type | Shaved ice |
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| Course | Dessert |
| Place of origin | Japan |
| Main ingredients | Ice, syrup, condensed milk or evaporated milk |
| Variations | Shirokuma |
 Cookbook: Kakigōri  Media: Kakigōri | |
Kakigōri (かき氷) is a Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and a sweetener, often condensed milk.[1]
Popular flavors include strawberry, cherry, lemon, green tea, grape, melon, "Blue Hawaii," sweet plum, and colorless syrup. Some shops provide colorful varieties by using two or more different syrups. To sweeten kakigōri, condensed or evaporated milk is often poured on top of it. It is similar to a snow cone, but with some notable differences: it has a much smoother fluffier ice consistency, much like fresh fallen snow, and a spoon is almost always used to eat it. The traditional way of making kakigōri uses a hand cranked machine to spin a block of ice over an ice shaving blade. Even though electric ice shavers are most often used, street vendors can still be seen hand-shaving ice blocks in the summer.
In addition to the streets, kakigōri is sold in festivals, convenience stores, coffee shops, and restaurants. During the hot summer months, kakigōri is sold virtually everywhere in Japan. Some shops serve it with ice cream and sweetened red beans or tapioca pearls.
See also
Media related to Kakigōri at Wikimedia Commons
Similar dishes in other cultures
- Baobing: a Chinese shaved-ice variant
- Patbingsu: a Korean shaved-ice variant
- Halo-halo: a Philippine shaved-ice variant
- Es campur: an Indonesian shaved-ice variant
- Es teler: an Indonesian shaved-ice variant
- Ais Kacang (ABC): a Malaysian shaved-ice variant.
- Grattachecca: an Italian shaved ice variant popular in Rome.
- Hawaiian Shave Ice: a Hawaiian shaved-ice variant.
References
- ↑ 新明解国語辞典（第6版）、三省堂
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