Mutton and vegetables cooking on a round tabletop grill.

Jingisukan

Japan · East Asia

Short description
This grilled dish uses a distinctive domed pan that lets meat juices season the vegetables below.
Ingredients
Mutton or lamb grilled with onion, pumpkin, bean sprouts, bell pepper, and soy-based sauce.
Cultural note
The communal grill setup makes it a social meal, with meat and vegetables cooked together at the table.
Common misconception
The name evokes a historical figure, but the dish is a regional grilled-mutton style rather than a Central Asian recipe.

image credit

Jingisukan japanese mutton barbecue.jpg

creator:
Jesper Rautell Balle
license:
CC BY 3.0
modified:
Downloaded from Wikimedia Commons, cropped to reduce partial people and background, then resized/re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.