Mountain Skewer · Grilled Miso Rice
Gohei Mochi
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It is said to have begun with lumberjacks in the Kiso area who pressed rice onto scraps of timber and grilled it over a bonfire with miso.
Pounded non-glutinous rice is moulded onto a flat wooden skewer, brushed with a sweet, nutty miso or soy sauce and grilled, sold at roadside stalls and old post towns in the mountains of Nagano and Gifu.
Why it's made this way: It belongs to the Kiso and Ina valleys of Nagano, the Tono area of Gifu and Mikawa in Aichi, and is thought to date from the mid-Edo period.
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