Japanese cuisine

Japanese eat not only the mouth, but the eyes - say in Japan. Therefore, the design of the table as a whole and each dish separately here as valued as cooking itself. On the tray, often with only a decorative purpose, put a nice orange, cucumber or fanciful carved in the form of egg plant.

The Japanese eat very peculiar. Dense and satisfying breakfast. Most often in the morning eat a dry crumbly boiled rice, pickles pickles, eggs, fish and bean soup. Since Japan has no spoons, soup habitually drunk straight from the bowl.

Lunch is usually less abundant. To the boiled rice served boiled vegetables, boiled lentils and dried fish dishes with eggs.

Rice is served, and for dinner from strong broth and sushi - raw fish. It is first placed in the freezer, then cut into thin slices and pour lemon juice or hot sauce of soy, horseradish and herbs.

Different everyday food of the Japanese workers and employees. There are eating for lunch bento - it's something like a complex dinner consisting of a sandwich without bread. In a cup of rice is served hot side dish.

In fact, according to an ancient Japanese tradition is unacceptable to put on rice and other foods the more indecent pour the broth it. But modern humans due to the intense rhythm could abandon this tradition. Don Bu Irimono - so the dish where all served together, has many varieties. For example, tempura on rice. Or grilled eel on rice. Or deep fried in oil and breadcrumbs pork cutlet on rice.

Since the end of the XIX century in the Japanese menu hundred ,! appear rice, covered with slices of quickly cooked chicken and green onions, mixed with egg.

Eating meat in Japan was officially banned until the middle of the XIX century. It was only in the twenties of the twentieth century it was used extensively in cooking. Today in Japanese cuisine, there are options of dishes with beef and pork.

Japanese salad - a very unusual dish. The Japanese take out! core green salad, stuffed her sweet and sour mixture of pineapples, tomatoes, oranges and ginger. Serves on large lettuce leaves, watering sauce sweetened sour cream and lemon juice.

In Japanese rice salad with roast beef put and run by a complex sauce browned maize flour and orange juice mixed with mayonnaise.

However, the main place in the diet of Japanese people take fish and seafood. Rarely served boiled fish. Most often it is fried, and usually entirely. Specific Japanese food - fish cakes. They are made from fish fillets, maize flour, whipped egg whites and greens, and seasoned with soy sauce, a sweet dessert wine, sugar and pepper. Round cakes, finger-thick, fry on both sides in hot oil until light golden brown.

Japanese eat even poisonous fish, pre-exposing her special treatment. To be eligible to cook a fish, the cook must pass a difficult test. And next to those who eat it, is necessarily a doctor.

The most famous abroad dish - sushi. This balls of cooked rice with vinegar, coated or filled with a variety of delicacies. Susi has emerged as a way of long-term storage of marine products. They are salted and kept in brine until they start to wander and turn sour. Sometimes, to accelerate the fermentation process added boiled rice.

Modern varieties of sushi are not subject to fermentation. Usually cooked rice seasoned with vinegar, salt and sugar. Depending on serving this dish has different names. You may submit a molded rice with seafood. Or rice wrapped in seaweed pressed. Or compressed into a small box of rice with seafood seasoning. The most popular is rice, topped with thin slices of seafood, eggs and vegetables. This dish is served during the celebration of the dolls, which is celebrated on the third of March in Japan. For this holiday necessarily give girls dolls and treated to sip sweet white sake (Japanese rice wine is strong), which is made from rice and yeast. Traditionally, the festival of dolls eat more soup with mussels and shrimp salad and green onions. Soup with mussels and often at weddings.