蒸し焼き

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 蒸し焼き, read むしやき, is cooking with both heat and trapped steam.
• Basic usage: In 魚を野菜と一緒に蒸し焼きにした。, the fish was steam-cooked with vegetables.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Cooking with trapped steam
  • A lid traps steam, as indicated by ふたをして. 蒸し焼きにした means the ingredients were cooked by this method.