Weekdays cooking dishes will use a variety of ingredients, such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, etc., different spices have their own taste, but it seems that the taste of these ingredients are difficult to compare with mustard, mustard natural, straight to the nasal cavity of the "spicy" is not any kind of spice can be compared, mention of mustard, many people have eaten, but when asked about the source of mustard, what is made? But I don't know, today I will take you to figure out what wasabi is.
Mustard is roughly divided into two kinds, one is yellow mustard, the other is green mustard, because the raw materials are different, so the mustard made is different in color and taste, in our China, the earliest appeared mustard is yellow, is a mustard powder ground from the ripe seeds of mustard, mixed with water after the spicy taste will be released, and the mustard oil seen is extracted from mustard seeds.
As we all know, Japan is near the sea, and love to eat seafood, their sashimi, sushi famous in the world, because seafood are fishy, so it is necessary to eat with ingredients, so that it can cover the sea fishy taste well, so there is wasabi, wasabi the stem will appear turquoise sauce after grinding, its taste is spicy but slightly sweet, with sashimi delicious to the extreme, but wasabi This ingredient it is not like Chinese mustard, good nutrition, it has extremely high requirements for the environment and water quality, and wasabi preservation time is extremely short, Only 15 minutes, so expensive.
For the common people, wasabi is naturally unaffordable, then someone seized the business opportunity, there is a substitute for wasabi green paste-like mustard on the market, it is made of the root of the carrot, originally white, because of the addition of food coloring into green mustard, because of the low cost, so this mustard price is cheap, and the taste and pure wasabi is very similar, a market is very popular.
Now, the market has rarely seen yellow mustard, has been replaced by green mustard, so everyone usually eats the mustard is made of the root of the horse radish, that is, horseradish, in fact, whether it is the stem of the wasabi or the seed of mustard, the root of the horseradish, are formed by the "isothiocyanate" formed by the stimulating taste, and finally remind everyone that wasabi is not wasabi, but it is the same as mustard, so it is called wasabi.
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