串カツ

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 串カツ is a noun read くしかつ, referring to skewered pieces of meat or vegetables that are breaded and deep-fried.
• Basic usage: It can identify the ingredients fried on skewers or describe cooling the hot food slightly before eating.
  • 夕食に野菜と肉の串カツを揚げました。 says that vegetable and meat skewers were fried for dinner; 熱い串カツを少し冷ましてから食べました。 says that the hot deep-fried skewers were allowed to cool slightly before being eaten.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 野菜と肉の串カツ
  • と joins vegetables and meat as the two ingredient types.
• 冷ましてから
  • てから establishes that cooling happened before eating.
• 串カツ and とんかつ
  • 串カツ consists of deep-fried skewered ingredients, while とんかつ is normally a breaded pork cutlet.