菜種油(なたねあぶら)

なたねあぶら
noun
rapeseed oil; canola oil
foodcooking
1. rapeseed oil; canola oil
Oil pressed from the seeds of the rape plant (菜(な)の花(はな)). The commonest cooking oil in Japan, used for frying and tempura and sold widely as キャノーラ油(ゆ).
菜種油(なたねあぶら)で揚(あ)げる。
To deep-fry in rapeseed oil.
天(てん)ぷらには菜種油(なたねあぶら)を使(つか)う。
We use rapeseed oil for tempura.
江戸(えど)時代(じだい)には、菜種油(なたねあぶら)は料理(りょうり)よりも明(あ)かりに使(つか)われていた。
In the Edo period rapeseed oil was used more for lamps than for cooking.

Similar words

  • キャノーラ油(ゆ): canola oil — oil from rapeseed varieties bred to be low in erucic acid; the usual supermarket label
  • サラダ油(ゆ): salad oil — a blended, refined oil, often largely rapeseed
  • ごま油(あぶら): sesame oil

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