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Sushi Recipes
Japan has due
to its geographical characteristic surrounded by oceans plenty of
fish available fresh every day. Also rice is an important product
of the Japanes agriculture.
These typical Japanese products - raw fish and rice - are the main ingredients
for the famous Sushi and you will find all varieties of sushi recipes around the world. In Japan there is also a way of preparing
simply raw fish without rice. It is called Sashimi.
Sushi
Sushis are small bites with rice soured with vinegar and topped with raw fish, sometimes vegetables and eggs. Sushi was invented in former times to preserve the fish with the rice and vinegar. Depending on the kind of fish it will also be served with Wasabi paste which is a green hot horesradishpaste and soysauce. To neutralize the taste in between two different types of fish there should be served some pickled ginger.
Famous Sushi Recipes:
Nigiri
sushi: The rice is formed to a bite-size ball. Then fish is
put on top of the balls.
Nigiri sushi with salmon
Nigiri sushi
with prawn
Nigiri sushi with tuna
Nigiri sushi recipes
Nigiri Sushi
Maki sushi: These Sushi are
roll ups. The sushi rice is put on a Nori sheet made out of seaweed and
is rolled into this sheet with fish or other ingredients.
Maki sushi with salmon
Maki sushi with tuna
Kappa Maki
California Roll
Maki sushi recipes
California Roll
Temaki sushi
Sashimi
You can also
have raw fish without any rice just plain fish. This dish is called
Sashimi.
The fish is cut into 8x3x1 cm pieces and served with soy sauce.
Depending on the kind of fish it will also be served with Wasabi
paste which is a green hot horesradishpaste. To neutralize the
taste in between two different types of fish there should be served
some pickled ginger.
Famous Sashimis:
Ebi: Prawn
Ika: Squid
Maguro: Tuna
Saba: Makerel
Sake: Salmon
Tako: Octopus
Toro: Fat part of Tunafish
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