This inside-out sushi has the nori inside and the rice outside, making it an alternative to traditional sushi. The fillings are crunchy cucumber, barbecued eel, and drizzled with an unagi sauce called kabayaki. It’s a common condiment in many Japanese dishes and grilled meat. While it’s ...
In the United States, this sauce is created differently depending on which sushi bar you go to. I will show you how to create a delicious version without actually using any eel!For this tutorial, you will need:2/3 cup of Sugar (150 ml) 4 tsp of Dashi (fish soup stock – 60 ml) ...
Anago (conger eel) is best known as a sushi-counter standard, where it is grilled and brushed with a sweet sauce before being set atop a finger of rice. There are also a few upscale anago specialty restaurants that prepare the fish in various styles - sashimi, grilled with or without sau...
Dark, rich, and sticky, it’s the perfect condiment to add flavor to grilled dishes, drizzle on sushi, and so much more. Only 4 ingredients and 25 minutes are needed to make this iconic Japanese sauce. Eel sauce, also called kabayaki sauce or nitsume sauce, is a thick Japanese brown s...
The larvae are called glass eels, so named due to their transparency. The term does not refer to a fish species but the larval stage refers to the fish’s life stage after hatching and up to adulthood. Distribution, Population, and Habitat The precise number of eels living in the world’...
The American Eel is in the order called Anguilliformes, which encompasses all eels. There are eight suborders of eels as well as 19 families and 111 genera under the order of Anguilliformes. Overall, there are around 800 species of eels worldwide. The American Eel is in the family An...
Agents with the U.S. government’s ‘Operation Broken Glass’ have nabbed more than a dozen men for smuggling valuable baby eels to Asia.
(e.g. The Netherlands, London in the UK) and is sold worldwide. More general, consumption may be increasing with the popularity of sushi food where it is frequently used as an ingredient. In the Netherlands, most eel is currently produced by eel farming, and as such well below limits, ...
Freshwater eel is a popular sushi item and is sold under the Japanese name unagi. Young eels are farm raised after being captured from the wild - a practice that puts more pressure on wild populations that are already in decline. More ...
Eel Sauce is also called Natsume, Unagi,or Kabayaki Sauce. It is a sweet and salty dipping sauce that goes great over grilled fish or chicken and is a familiardrizzle over sushi. Traditionally this unagi sauce recipe is used on Japanese grilled eel and eel rolls. I also use this gluten-...