Okiham Nakami-jiru is a retort-pouch food made and sold by Okinawa Ham Sogo Shokuhin Co., Ltd. in Yomitan Village, Okinawa.
You can buy it as a souvenir, and supermarkets in Okinawa sell it as an everyday retort-pouch food.
Nakami-jiru is a local Okinawan dish, often eaten with family and relatives at New Year and on celebratory occasions.
Nakami means pork offal: the stomach and intestines are simmered in bonito stock and seasoned with soy sauce and salt.
You add ginger and spring onion to the light broth before eating.
Some Okinawa soba restaurants also add soba noodles to nakami-jiru and serve it as nakami soba.
Think of nakami-jiru as Okinawa’s answer to the ozoni soup eaten on the mainland.
Reference: Kyodo Ryori Monogatari
Okiham Nakami-jiru
Preparing it is very simple:
- Heat the unopened pouch in boiling water for 5 minutes
- Open the pouch, pour the contents into a pan and heat
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It is a retort-pouch food, so that is all there is to preparing it.
※Do not microwave the pouch as it is
Okiham Nakami-jiru: our impressions
[Recommendation for Okiham Nakami-jiru] [usrlist "Recommended:4.5"]
Okiham Nakami-jiru is delicious, with a flavor that brings back memories of family celebrations.
Nakami-jiru has three main ingredients:
・pork offal
・konjac
・finely sliced shiitake mushrooms
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I found it a little salty, but it was still very good.
Okiham Nakami-jiru: details
| Product type | Japanese-style soup |
| Manufacturer | Okinawa Ham Sogo Shokuhin Co., Ltd. |
| Manufacturer address | 2822-3 Zakimi, Yomitan Village, Okinawa Prefecture |
| Ingredients | Pork offal, konjac, pork and chicken bone broth, salt water, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, grated ginger, dried bonito, sugars, seasoning, calcium hydroxide. Contains wheat, pork, chicken, soy and apple. |
| Contents | 350g |
| Best before | 1 year unopened |
| Storage | Store at room temperature, away from direct sunlight |
| Price range | 420 yen (per bag) |
About the nutrition facts
Here are the nutrition facts for Okiham Nakami-jiru.
Okiham Nakami-jiru is a little salty and the sodium content seems high, so take a look before you eat.
| Energy | 109kcal |
| Protein | 14.0g |
| Fat | 4.6g |
| Carbohydrate | 3.2g |
| Salt equivalent | 3.3g |
Summary
Here we covered Okiham Nakami-jiru.
Okiham Nakami-jiru tastes far better than you would expect from a retort pouch.
If you do not live in Okinawa you may well never have tried nakami-jiru, so why not give it a go?
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