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anmitsu en · NOUN

Etymology

From Japanese 餡蜜 (anmitsu).

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly and served in a bowl with anko, boiled peas, often gyūhi and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of sweet black syrup which one pours onto the jelly before eating.
   • It also comes with dessert — seasonal potato manju and fruits anmitsu. 2023 April 30, Dining Out (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), page 16:
   • Not so close it felt like she could pluck a star out and take a bite. Would it taste sweet and buttery like Isao’s freshly baked loaves? Or was it cold and icy, tasty as jellylike blocks of anmitsu? 2022, Julie Abe, Alliana, Girl of Dragons, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
   • Dessert might tempt with butterscotch and white miso pudding next to a dollop of green tea ice cream, or an anmitsu of green tea ice cream, strawberry lychee kanten, adzuki beans and matcha yokan sweet bean paste jelly. 2011 July 1, Carey Sweet, “You will want to be in the Noh for omakase”, in The Arizona Republic, 122nd year, number 44, section Z8, page 20:
   • Serve the anmitsu with the kuromitsu syrup on the side. 2020, Diana Ault, Cook Anime: Eat Like Your Favorite Character—from Bento to Yakisoba, New York, N.Y.: Tiller Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN, page 123:

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