Fish

Ikura

いくら

Japan

Salt-cured or soy-marinated salmon roe, prized for its bursting, briny pearls.

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What it is

A closer look at Ikura.

Salt-cured or soy-marinated salmon roe, prized for its bursting, briny pearls.

What to look for

Know it when you find it.

Best as ikura-don (over rice) or as gunkanmushi; each pearl should pop with clean salmon flavor.

Where it belongs

Origins and
traditions.

Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Ikura.

Native to

Japan

Country-wide tradition

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Names around the table

One food, more than one name.

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