Abura-age 油揚げ

Abura-age is thin sheets of fried tofu that are most popularly known as the stuffed tofu pockets called ‘inari-zushi’. Another popular dish is in kitsune soba or kitsune udon, which is abura-age slices in noodle soup. Kitsune means ‘fox’ and in Japanese mythology this food is associated with Inari the fox deity, who is a messenger of the gods.