Nigiri sushi is a admired form of sushi where a sliver of raw fish or prawns rests on a bed of sushi rice. This oblong shaped sushi dish is highly accepted, as it allows the full flavor of the fish to be the star. There are many ways to make nigiri sushi, which means that while you can order the same style of fish many times, each time you have it, it can be a new experience.
Few sushi makers use Nori as a device to set the fish over the rice. While other like wasabi for this purpose. Sushi rice can enhance the taste of the fish and different methods have been used to do this.
As well, there are several dissimilar ways that nigiri sushi can be eaten, all of which can modify how the sushi tastes. When you eat nigiri sushi, you are supposed to eat the nigiri so that the fish is the first thing to touch your tongue.
If you eat your nigiri sushi rice down, you will lose the hard flavor of the fish. As a sushi chef prides themselves on the selection of fish for nigiri, making certain you eat it correctly is rigid.
Soya sauce is widely used with Nigiri sushi. But it is not easy to have soya sauce and wasabi with Nigir as there is a particular technique of using them together. In other sushi dishes like Maki sushi, it is easy to eat them with soya sauce, but in Nigiri if rice soaks the soya sauce it would become a big mess for you. Due to this reason, soya sauce can only be applied over the fish so that rice bed does not crumble when you try to eat it.
Not only making sushi involves lots of creativity but eating it is also an art. And that art can be performed by using two tools; chopsticks and your fingers. Make it sure that when you eat a sushi food you should not leave anything uneaten
Sushi cooks guess you to finish all the sushi which you have taken into your serving dish and if you do not do that he might consider is an offense. But it is alright if you choose not pick up any sushi from the key serving dish because it is considered at your disposal whether to take anything from the main dish or not.
If your Nigiri sushi is of normal size you should eat it in one bite but if it is big then you might cut it into two pieces. Except Temaki sushi, all the sushi food must be taken within two bites.
Ingrid A. Preube
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Posted on January 27th, 2010 by the big chef
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