Saturday, December 3, 2011

JAPANESE FOOD .. ^^


Do you know about The Japanese Food??
Yeah, I think all of you know about this popular food. ^^ 
Japan has a lot of delicious food. Meals provided is in accordance with the desired taste of people from any area. It can be seen as almost in each country has a fairly well-known Japanese restaurant.
      Ways of making food is also quite diverse. Some only half a cooked fried or boiled and served simply. Japanese cuisine is characterized in food materials. In general, Japanese cooking ingredients such as: rice, agricultural produce (vegetables and nuts), and seafood. Seasonings be made ​​from konbu dashi, fish and shiitake, plus miso and shoyu. In contrast to the cuisines of other countries, Japanese food did not use the seasoning of spices from seeds (pepper) or flavoring yanng contain seeds (such as chili) that must be crushed or mashed. Japanese cuisine also does not use strong-smelling herbs such as garlic. Soybeans are the main ingredients of processed foods. Flavoring is usually a scented vegetables are finely chopped or grated. Japanese cuisine is generally low in fat, but contain high levels of salt.
      Examples of foods that are well-known and much favored by many people in all corners of the world is sushi, onigiri, ramen, yakiniku and shabu-shabu.


^ ^ This time I will discuss about the sushi. I am sure you already know what it is sushi.
      Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of rice that formed along a side dish (neta) of seafood, meat, vegetables, raw or cooked. Sushi rice has a soft taste sour because seasoned mixture of rice vinegar, salt, and sugar.
      Sushi is generally classified by the form of rice, among others nigirizushi and oshizushi.


^^ Nigirizushi

   Fresh seafood (usually raw) were placed on top of the rice which is formed by placing the rice in the palm of one hand and shape it with your fingers the other. Nori is often used to bind the neta that can not be separated from the rice. Side dish that is placed on top of sushi can also be cooked in a state like tamagoyaki or unagi eel and eel anago already baked
# Neta for nigirizushi:
     * Fish
     * Shellfish
     * eel
     * Shrimp
     * Crab (small crab)
     * Fish Eggs
     * The squid, uni (sea urchin), and octopus
     * Aburage, kanikamaboko, kampyo, cucumber, dashimaki, natto, Neri ume, negitoro


^^ Oshizushi
Rice prepared with neta who pressed for a while with the intention of compressing the resulting sushi rice so that the rectangle-shaped and cut into pieces to be easily enjoyed. Oshizushi there is also wrapped in bamboo leaves and pressed for a while, between a few hours until one night. The names oshizushi popular include:

     * Sabazushi containing mackerel
     * Masuzushi
     * Oshizushi Funa fish
     * Sanmazushi and Gozaemonzushi
     * Iwakunizushi
  ^^ That's it for today. And in the next post, I will discuss other Japanese food .. Look forward to .. ^ ^