Perhaps it is difficult to find a more popular Japanese dish in Russia and all over the world than sushi. The gastronomic attribute, traditional for the Land of the Rising Sun, quickly gained its popularity in Russia due to its original taste and relatively low cost of preparation.
Sushi is prepared independently, consumed in various establishments and ordered at home. There are quite a lot of sushi varieties. The most popular, familiar and easy-to-prepare form is khosomaki - small rolls with rice and filling, wrapped in a nori seaweed sheet. Their diameter is approximately 2-3 centimeters.
Another common variety is futomaki, made by analogy with hosomaki, but having a five-centimeter diameter and several fillings. Uramaki are “rolls inside out”: they are rolled up so that the rice is on the outside and the noria leaf is on the inside. Rolls in the form of a cone made of noria filled with rice and filling are called temaki.
Nigiri or nigirizushi is a sushi in the form of a small lump of rice with a piece of fish, sometimes attached with a thin strip of nori. Gunkans or gunkanmaki are a form of sushi without rice, in the form of a filling wrapped in nori. Oshizushi is a flat, square sushi made by pressing rice and filling with a special tool: a wooden osabiko mold. Sushi is formed and then cut into portions.
Inarizushi is a type of sushi in which the filling is placed in a special bag made of fried tofu cheese or tomago omelette. Tyakinzushi are rolls that are wrapped in an omelet directly during its preparation. Typically triangular or envelope-shaped.
Kahinohadzsushi is a type of sushi in which rice and filling are wrapped in a persimmon leaf. There are several varieties of the so-called "scattered" sushi or chirashizushi. The traditional version of the dish is a bowl of rice with toppings sprinkled on top of it. Edome tirashizushi is a type of sprinkled sushi with a raw filling. Gomokuzushi is a sprinkled sushi in which the filling is mixed with the rice rather than stacked on top of it.
