Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sweet Japanese rice wine used especially in cooking.

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  • noun a form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Japanese, mi, flavor (from Early Middle Chinese mujh; also the source of Mandarin wèi) + rin, variant reading of the kanji for ran, to remove the astringency of persimmons by soaking in rice wine (from Middle Chinese lam´) due to misreading as rin, to strain, filter (from Middle Chinese lim`) because of the two terms' similarity in meaning and the resemblance of their kanji .]

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Japanese kanji: 味醂; hiragana: みりん

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Examples

  • This can't be understood other than in light of the fact that the sauce, anago no tsume, used in confecting eel sushi is a syrupy reduction made with table sugar, sake, soy sauce, and the sweet wine called mirin, and that during this reduction caramelizing causes the browning sugar to grow in mass through the formation of fructose and glucose.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • This can't be understood other than in light of the fact that the sauce, anago no tsume, used in confecting eel sushi is a syrupy reduction made with table sugar, sake, soy sauce, and the sweet wine called mirin, and that during this reduction caramelizing causes the browning sugar to grow in mass through the formation of fructose and glucose.

    If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007

  • This can't be understood other than in light of the fact that the sauce, anago no tsume, used in confecting eel sushi is a syrupy reduction made with table sugar, sake, soy sauce, and the sweet wine called mirin, and that during this reduction caramelizing causes the browning sugar to grow in mass through the formation of fructose and glucose.

    How Now Brownpau 2009

  • During the last 10 minutes, add the mirin and soy sauce and continue cooking uncovered to cook off any extra liquid in the dish.

    Meg Wolff: Asian Superfoods Recipes: Daikon and Shitake Meg Wolff 2011

  • In a small saucepan, combine the soy sauce, mirin, brown sugar, and ginger.

    Deborah Chud: A Healthy Food Blogger Faces the Opposition Deborah Chud 2012

  • Warm Ginger-Soy Vinaigrette optional: In small saucepan, stir together 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1/3 cup rice vinegar, 2 tablespoons mirin, 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar, 1 tablespoon dark Asian sesame oil.

    Jazzing Up the Bird Rozanne Gold 2011

  • This is a quickie, but tasty – stirfried carrot flowers, zucchini leaves, mushrooms and leek with tamagoyaki and some of the tiniest cherry tomatoes ever on noodles with sesame oil, mirin and soy sauce.

    Bento #267 « Were rabbits 2009

  • I had expected mirin, surveying other recipes, but Taichi said it could make the meat hard.

    Sukiyaki at Kappo 2009

  • Toss with remaining 1½ Tbsp tamari, mirin, and remaining sesame seeds.

    Teriyaki-Glazed Salmon with Grilled Sesame Broccolini! 2009

  • In a small saucepan, combine the soy sauce, mirin, brown sugar, and ginger.

    Deborah Chud: A Healthy Food Blogger Faces the Opposition Deborah Chud 2012

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