Title: Nori 海苔 :: Sushi Ingredients :: Sushi PRO
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Content: Nori 海苔 :: Sushi Ingredients :: Sushi PRO
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Nori (海苔) is commonly used to refer to pressed sheets of dried laver used in sushi bars to make sushi rolls. The original Nori was a paste, and a form of it is still popular in Japan, but today the term is commonly used to refer only to the dark green paper-thin sheets used in sushi bars. Shredded varieties and mixtures containing other flavoring are also popular ways to eat nori in Japanese cuisine, but again most westerners know only the sheets of nori used in their local sushi bar or Japanese restaurant. Nori as we see it is pressed, dried sheets of seaweed. This seaweed is a type of red algae, although by the time it's dried and ready to eat it's dark green; almost black in color. Korea and Japan both produce billions of sheets of Nori each year, but increasingly cheaper grades are being supplied by China. Every year the demand in America for nori to make various sushi rolls increases, even though nigirizushi remains the staple of the Japanese sushi experience.