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Culinary and cultural project "Soviet Sushi"In recent years, it has become fashionable in our country to consume various dishes that are somehow considered exotic. Despite the fact that in the homeland of these dishes they are rightly considered food by no means refined, everyday and boring, in Russia they take a lot of money for them and turn the eating of these dishes into a kind of symbolic ritual. Of course, such dishes primarily include pizza and sushi.
Pizza is a product so simple and uncomplicated that we won't even talk about it here.Let's remember only about pies and pancakes with filling and marvel at the popularity of the overseas analogue. And the rituals accompanying pizza are not interesting.
Sushi is another matter. The food of poor Japanese fishermen and peasants has become truly iconic in our country. People spend a lot of money in sushi bars, order all this cooking at home, learn how to cook them, memorizing incomprehensible Japanese words - the names of bamboo rugs, dried seaweed and so on. People are even ready to start eating with chopsticks - for what? After all, what is the main ingredient of sushi and rolls? Plain boiled rice. In second place is dried seaweed or an omelet that replaces them. And, of course, fish and seafood, and in our conditions we have to use boiled, salted or otherwise processed in order to avoid poisoning.
And then one day, having decided to make some rolls at home (just don't ask why!) With salmon and other joys, we thought deeply about the above questions. And we remembered that we live in a country that was once called the Soviet Union. And we remembered that the culinary traditions of the peoples inhabiting this country are not only rich, but also much closer to us than Japanese and other Far Eastern "delights". And we have formulated the following principles:
1. Soviet people do not need fillers like rice for food. If there is not enough food, the Soviet person will seize it with bread or porridge, but will not wrap the food in porridge.
2. Soviet people do not need dried seaweed to wrap food. Food can be wrapped in other food, and inappropriate things should not be used for this.
3. Soviet people are not obliged to consume harmful salted soy sauce and senselessly spicy wasabi horseradish. You can and should make delicious and nutritious sauces from traditional products.
4. Soviet people should not eat with chopsticks. It is inconvenient to eat with chopsticks. Forks, spoons and just hands leave no chance for chopsticks.
5. Soviet people are kind, hospitable and loving. Soviet sushi should be tasty, nourishing, varied and beautiful.
Based on the above, we compiled a list of ingredients, developed original recipes and prepared (and then happily used) the following:
Next, we will tell you a little more about our recipes, describe the preparation and demonstrate photographs.
Let's start with the sauces.
For the first one, we took simple Russian vodka and ordinary grated horseradish (not wasabi!). Then we just mixed them in a 1/1 ratio, adding a little table salt. If you are on a salt-free diet, no salt may be added. This is the main sauce for Soviet sushi. Dipping sushi into it, you both drink and eat at the same time.
The second sauce, less spicy, for ulcers and teetotalers, is made from kefir with the addition of Russian table mustard (about a tablespoon per 200 ml). We also suggest adding salt to taste, you can also add finely chopped herbs. Instead of pickled ginger, of course, we used sauerkraut flavored with vegetable oil.
Soviet sushi can be eaten with black and white bread, washed down with a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and brought to your mouth in any convenient way. A Soviet person does not need strict rules for a feast!
Let's start making sushi. Let's take a simple recipe with a minimum of components as the first number. Combine a slice of boiled potatoes with a slice of fried chicken cutlet, wrap it in a thin longitudinal petal of pickled cucumber and secure it with a ring of onion. We named this recipe "Rest House". Taste it, dipped in the main sauce, and close your eyes ... does it not start to seem that you are sitting in the dining room of a simple Soviet holiday home in central Russia?
The next recipe is very similar, it would seem, but at the same time, it tastes completely different. With the right ingredients, amazing effects can be achieved. It is called simply: "With vodka".So, take boiled potatoes (by the way, in all recipes we recommend using jacket potatoes) and carefully peeled herring, wrap them in a fresh cucumber peeled off and also secure with a ring of onions. Garnish with dill and chives.
Further, of course, there are two recipes, without which (in a slightly different form) not a single Soviet feast can do. Of course, this is "Olivier" and "Herring under a fur coat." It seems that everyone is well aware of the recipes for these dishes, and therefore everyone can easily prepare these sushi to their liking (for example, we did not add a fresh apple to the herring, and many consider this unthinkable). Note that these two recipes use mayonnaise, although we are not overly fond of this French sauce.
But the recipe for "School Years" is also extremely uncomplicated. Wrap three pasta (thick, gray, real Soviet ones!) And a third of boiled sausage in a leaf of fresh salad. Secure with a tomato ring. We supplemented the dish with an egg and mayonnaise, but you don't have to.
However, Russian cuisine is not the only source of inspiration. For example, sushi "Baltic": sprats, cheese, green onions. There is no need to fix them, since the cheese greased with sprat oil holds itself perfectly. We decorated them with fresh dill.
Agree, in Soviet times, Poland (and most of the countries of the socialist camp) were perceived by us almost like relatives. In memory of this - Polish sushi: on a leaf of fresh lettuce, in a tomato ring, a piece of salted bacon, yolk and a piece of Krakow sausage inserted into it. And there is no need to think about "rotten horse meat": Krakow sausage is an excellent tasty product.
Sushi "Caucasian", the most difficult to prepare, are dedicated to the richest Caucasian cuisine. Fry the eggplant rings in vegetable oil with salt and spices to taste. Wrap the fried eggplant in a neatly cut strip of Armenian lavash, carefully place the boiled red beans and chopped clove of pickled garlic on top. Add a piece of salted wild garlic, a couple of cilantro leaves and wrap, then tie a sprig of fresh parsley of a suitable length. We assure you, all this fuss is fully justified! The taste is fantastic. Serve with cilantro and tkemali sauce.
We could not ignore another national cuisine - Jewish - and created the Promised Land sushi. Boiled carrots are cut into portions, then their core is cut out. A piece of prune is placed in the resulting hole, and two onion rings are put on top of the carrots. Sushi is served on matzo and always with fresh honey. These dry ones do not need to be dipped in the first two sauces, but should be dipped in honey and seized with matzo. Delicious!
And finally, a somewhat peculiar recipe: sushi "For beer". On a half of the flattened carcass of a yellow minke, place a slice of processed Druzhba cheese (we insist on this particular variety!), On the cheese - two croutons to taste, and on the sides of the croutons, place two slices of the squid dried rings. All this must (!) Be sprinkled with tobacco from Belomor cigarettes. This sushi can be dipped in the ninth "Baltika" and washed down with it. Therefore, this recipe is not suitable for aesthetic natures.
In conclusion, we want to give a couple of general tips.
Although you can make Soviet sushi and eat it right away, we still advise you to keep it at room temperature for several hours to dry it up a bit and to fully reveal its unique taste.
We recommend serving Soviet sushi on old Soviet dishes, optimally with the inscription "Public catering", but you can also use Czech or Polish dishes of the same time. Glasses are strictly faceted. If these rules are observed, immersion in the era will be fuller and richer in taste.
You can invent any recipes - we hope you get the general idea. So create, invent and try!
Good luck, fantasy and bon appetit!
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