page_title: Satsuma-age
section_title: Varieties
hierarchical_section_title: Satsuma-age / Varieties
caption_attribution_description: English: Serving jakoten at a ryokan in Dogo, Ehime, Japan.
context_page_description: Satsuma-age is a fried fishcake originating from Kagoshima, Japan. Surimi and flour is mixed to make a compact paste that is solidified through frying. It is a specialty of the Satsuma region. It is known by a variety of regional names throughout Japan.
  The paste is made from fish and seasoned with salt, sugar, and other spices and molded into several shapes. It is made not only from ground fish but can include wood ear, beni shōga, onion, Welsh onion and other vegetables, squid, octopus, shrimp and other sea foods, and some spices. In fishing villages, it is made from local fishes, for example sardines, shark, bonito, mackerel, etc. In most cases it is made by mixing two or more kinds of fish.
  People eat Satsuma-age plain or lightly roasted and dipped in ginger and soy sauce or mustard and soy sauce. It is used in oden, udon, sara udon or nimono.
context_section_description: Hiraten(ひら天): flat satsuma age
  Maruten(丸天): Satsuma-age like a thin disk. People in Kyushu, mainly Fukuoka, eat them with udon.
  Gobouten(ごぼう天, ごぼう巻き): Satsuma-age wrapped around burdock-like sticks.
  Ikaten(いか天): Satsuma-age wrapped around squid tentacles.
  Takoten(たこ天): Satsuma-age wrapped around cut octopus. There is a kind of ball shaped like takoyaki.
  Tamanegiten(タマネギ天): with onion.
  Bakudan (爆弾, 'Bomb'): Satsuma-age which wrapped around a boiled egg
  Honeku (ほねく), honeten: These are short versions of honekuri-tempura. This is a local dish in north Wakayama. Whole cutlass fish (Largehead hairtail:Trichiurus lepturus) are ground and fried. They have a unique smell.
  Jakoten(じゃこ天) is a special product of Uwajima in southern Ehime prefecture. Jakoten has a long history, having been eaten since the Edo period. It is made from small fish caught nearby that are blended into a paste and then fried.
  Gansu(がんす) (local dish in Hiroshima) is a fry made of breaded ground whitefish and a kind of cutlet.
caption: Jakoten (じゃこ天)
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