🍱 Iya no dekomawashi

Dekomawashi" is a local dish of Iya area in Miyoshi City. Bite-sized potatoes, buckwheat dumplings, rock tofu, and round konnyaku are skewered and grilled with miso sauce. The skewers are placed on the hearth and grilled, turning the skewers in a circular motion so that they cook all the way through. It is said that the name "dekkomawashi" comes from its resemblance to the way the heads of "deku" (wooden dolls) in Awa ningyo joruri (puppet theater) are turned. In the Iya region, a small potato called "zyoshu-imo" is grown, and this is used in the dekomawashi. Iwa-dofu is a type of cotton (momen) tofu that is as hard as a rock, and is also made in the Iya region. It is also suitable for making dekomawashi, which is skewered and grilled. In addition, buckwheat flour is widely produced in the Iya region, as in "Iya soba" (buckwheat noodles), and many of Iya's specialties are used in this dish.