# The best traditional Kyoto dishes

Kyoto vegetables, the Mackerel Road and Tanba produce: dishes from the Kyoto page of the Japanese agriculture ministry's 'Our Regional Cuisines'.

- 72 votes · 16 items
- Jul 21, 2022 · Mai Yoshida
- https://even.best/en/l/2154/the-best-traditional-kyoto-dishes

## Top 16

1. **Furofuki daikon** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Simmered daikon with miso sauce.
2. **Senmaizuke** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Pickled thin slices of Shogoin turnip.
3. **Suguki pickles** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Sour pickled suguki turnip.
4. **Shibazuke** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Aubergine pickled with red shiso.
5. **Grilled hamo** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Grilled pike conger, indispensable in Kyoto cuisine.
6. **Heshiko** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Tango mackerel cured in rice bran.
7. **Herring and aubergine** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Dried herring simmered with aubergine.
8. **Barazushi** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Tango scattered sushi with seasoned mackerel flakes.
9. **Manganji peppers with jako** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Manganji peppers simmered with baby sardines.
10. **Saba-zushi** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Mackerel pressed sushi, the fish brought from Wakasa along the Mackerel Road.
11. **White miso zoni** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — New Year soup of round mochi in white miso.
12. **Taro and dried cod** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Ebi-imo taro simmered with dried cod (imobo).
13. **Kamo aubergine dengaku** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Round Kamo aubergine grilled with miso.
14. **Uji kintoki** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Shaved ice with Uji matcha and sweet red beans.
15. **Minazuki** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Triangular sweet of uiro and red beans eaten on 30 June.
16. **Sea bream and turnip** (-3 · ▲1 ▼4) — Sea bream simmered with Shogoin turnip.

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