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Archie Heron
We're going for sushi!

Sushi has become fashionable and popular in our cultural circles. There are more and more restaurants serving traditional Japanese dishes, more and more often sushi is also served on our tables as a dish made by us at home.

More and more often sushi is also the main catering attraction, during official celebrations or conferences. Just-- sushi rules! So it would be nice to know a little bit about sushi...

So what can you find among the proposals of Japanese cuisine? What kind of sushi do we have?

MAKI - rice with various additives wrapped in algae. A distinction is made between several types of poppies, depending on their size and the amount of ingredients used: hoosomaki (thin rolls with a small amount of rice and one ingredient), futomaki (thick rolls with several ingredients), uramaki (inverted poppies, i.e. there is rice on the outside and other ingredients wrapped in algae inside) and others.
GUNKAN - a rice ball wrapped in nori algae plus a filling ingredient such as fish roe.
NIGIRI - a block of rice covered with a piece of raw fish.
OSHI - pressed sushi, i.e. rice and fish arranged in layers.
CHIRASHI - a bowl of rice on which various ingredients are placed, for example pieces of raw fish.
INARI - a sachet of fried tofu filled with rice with various ingredients.
NARE - fermented sushi. They are prepared from salted and rice coated fish that ferment for about a year (maximum three years). A rare form of sushi (even in Japan), considered to be a rarity.
TAMAGOYAKI - rice with additives wrapped in a thin Japanese omelette.

What else is worth knowing about sushi, that is, a few more interesting things... before we start eating :)

The word sushi, translated from Japanese, means a dish prepared from sour rice. The origins of sushi are linked to the old way of storing food in fermented rice (see above: nari).

The birth of sushi took place about 1300 years ago, but it started to gain worldwide popularity only in the second half of the 20th century. In the 1970s Japan even started to promote itself in the world through sushi.

The Japanese taste in sushi, which is prepared from deadly poisonous fish. Takifugu... a fish more toxic than cyanide, no antidote. It doesn't kill only if it's properly prepared. It is served only by master chefs who have undergone several years of training related to this dish.

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