Japanese cuisine has been very popular in recent years, but the trouble is that not everyone understands it so well as to make the right order in a restaurant or discuss its menu with friends. For example, only a few know that sashimi is not even sushi at all, but a completely independent dish.
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Sashimi is a very popular dish in Japan, consisting of sliced fish fillet slices in a special way and with a special knife, and any fish can be taken. A prerequisite is for the fish to be very fresh. Instead of fish, some progressive cooks also use a variety of seafood, even meat fillet. Serve sashimi with vegetables, ginger, wasabi and soy sauce.
Sushi or sashimi?
Sometimes sashimi is confused with sushi, considering these two words simply variations of the name of the same dish. In fact, sashimi is a completely independent dish, moreover, the Japanese themselves love it even more than sushi. The main feature of sashimi is that they are eaten without rice at all, while in sushi rice is one of the main ingredients.
And just because rice is not served with sashimi, the freshness of the fish is very important - in fact, in this case, rice will not be able to "mask" any aftertaste that the fish fillet acquires during storage. By the way, although for cooking sashimi you can take any fish at the discretion of the hostess, it is better not to take the river fish, since it is very barky and noticeably gives away fresh mud in fresh form.
How to chop fish for sashimi
First of all, you need a long and very sharp knife, ideally a Japanese knife for cutting fish. You will also need forceps to remove bones in order to very cleanly clean the fillet from the smallest bones.
Fillet should be placed on a cutting board and cut lengthwise into two halves. Thus, two pieces of fillet will turn out, each of which will have an uneven thin edge. This edge should be carefully cut, slowly holding the tip of the knife along the entire length of the piece of fish. Cut the fillet processed in this way into thin slices - almost the same way sausage is cut.