For a European, Japanese cuisine is mainly sushi. The main ingredients of the dish are seafood and rice. Despite the huge number of fans around the world, few people know what is the difference between sushi and rolls.
Rolls are a type of sushi. The difference between them lies in the method of preparation and the shape of the finished dish. Rolls are like tiny rolls, and sushi are lumps of pressed rice, which are covered with slices of fish or shrimp and tied with a noria ribbon. Fillings, seasonings, and the manner in which they are combined may also vary.
Maki (rolls) are a combination of rice with vegetables and seafood. All this is rolled into a nori leaf - seaweed. The resulting roll is cut into pieces.
Nigiri (compressed sushi) are compressed rice bars, small, the size of a finger, a piece of fish is placed on top.
Chirashi sushi (separate) is the most common type in Japan. Rice is laid out in small containers, an arbitrary combination of vegetables and seafood is added.
Oshi sushi (pressed) is prepared like this. Marinated or cooked fish is placed on the bottom of a small container. It is filled to the brim with rice, and oppression is arranged on top of it. The workpiece is taken out after a while, turned upside down with a fish and cut into pieces.
Mixed can be any sushi that does not fit into any of the categories described above. This is, for example, fukuza-sushi - a thin omelet is cut into squares and rice is wrapped in it.
