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 Although
there are a number of Sushi types that most people order, in reality, you
can choose any combination of fish and vegetables you like.
Therefore, in addition to some of the better-known Sushi types, you
can be as imaginative as you like and create your own Sushi variety.
The first list includes some of the most common ways in which Sushi
is made:
- Bara
Sushi – The vinegar rice and ingredients are mixed as a salad
- Chirashi
Sushi – The rice bed has various layers of fish and is served in a
bowl called Gomoku Sushi or Iso-don
- Futomaki
– This is a large Maki roll that has many different ingredients using
Nori, which is a seaweed wrap
- Inari
Sushi – Instead of using the traditional vinegar rice, brown, fried
tofu is used
- Nigiri
Sushi – Vinegar rice topped with a slice of raw or cooked fish, or
vegetables
- Okonomi
Sushi – This is home-style Nigiri
- Onigiri
– This Sushi is made with regular steamed rice and rolled into a ball
with other ingredients
- Oshizushi
– Vinegar rice and other ingredients of choice pressed into a mold
- Temaki
– These are cone-shaped seaweed rolls also called a hand roll
This second list includes
all the various types of Sushi:
- Amaebi
– Sweet shrimp
- Boston
Rolls – Crab, salmon, and scallion
- California
– Crab and avocado
- Ebi
– Shrimp
- Egg
Salad Rolls – Hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and green onion strips
- Hamachi
– Yellow Tail
- Hirame
- Halibut
- Holiday
Rolls – Turkey, cranberry salsa, and cream cheese strips
- Hotate
– Scallop
- Ika
– Squid
- Ikura
– Salmon roe
- Kani
- Crab
- Kappa
Ma – Cucumber
- Maguro
– Tuna
- Masago
– Smelt Roe
- Mirugai
– Giant clam
- New
York Rolls – Smoked salmon, apple, and avocado
- Pesto
Rolls – Turkey or chicken, cream cheese strips, and pesto
- Philadelphia
Rolls – Smoked salmon, cucumber, and cream cheese strips
- Saba
– Mackerel
- Sake
- Salmon
- Shrimp
Rolls – Shrimp and cream cheese strips
- Smoked
Salmon Rolls – Smoked salmon, cucumber, and cream cheese strips
- Spider
Roll
- Summer
Melon Rolls – Prosciutto and melon strips
- Tako
- Octopus
- Tai
– Red snapper
- Tamago
– Egg
- Tekka
Maki – Tuna Roll
- Temaki
– Spicy tuna
- Texas
Rolls – Cooked beef, cucumber, and spinach leaves
- Toro
– Fatty Tuna
- Tuna
Salad Rolls – Tuna salad and lettuce leaves
- Unagi
– Eel
- Uni
– Sea urchin
- Veggie
Rolls – Pesto, cucumber, tomato, mushrooms, scrambled egg, scallions
Keep in mind that some of
the Sushi types mentioned above are new recipes from people with creative
minds and all of these have become quite popular in the United States.
This third list includes
other ingredients that are commonly used for Sushi:
- Short-grain
white rice
- Nori
(seaweed)
- Mirin
(sweet rice wine)
- Seasoned
rice vinegar
- Prawns
- Barbecue
or regular eel
- Caviar
- Albacore
- Avocado
- Alpha
or bean sprouts
- Asparagus
- Shitake
mushrooms
- Cream
cheese
- Tempura
batter
As you can see, Sushi is
not simply rice and fish. While
you can create any ingredient combination that sounds appealing to you, the
one thing you want to do is maintain the integrity of this Asian food.
This means serving the Sushi with a choice of soy sauce or wasabi,
along with either pickled ginger or green tea as a way to cleanse the
palette.
You will find that making
Sushi is actually very easy. That
coupled with the fact that it is full of incredible nutrients, low in
calories, and tastes delicious, there is no doubt that Sushi will become
your next favorite food.
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