At all times, people have tried to combine seemingly incompatible things. Something good did not always work out, but sometimes the result exceeded all expectations.
What is fusion cuisine ?
Japanese rolls, Mediterranean salads, Chinese noodles and many more delicacies - there are so many delicious dishes in the world, but why is it all separate from each other? Do you really need to choose every time? And this, instead of combining all the finest elements from the cuisines of the world? In fact, everything is possible.
Fusion cuisine (from English fusion - merging, mixing) is at the same time one of the newest and oldest trends in cooking. However, this term does not refer
only to this area, it can be found literally anywhere. With regard to cooking, the peculiarity of this style is the combination of the incompatible. But this is not a hodgepodge, as it might seem, each dish is carefully calibrated and literally is a masterpiece of cookery. Only upscale culinary specialists can delicately combine elements of European and Asian or Mediterranean and Pacific cuisine. However, on a more or less simple level, this direction is accessible to absolutely everyone.
History
Of course, at all times there were people who were looking for new tastes and combinations.
They gave the world wonderful dishes that now seem familiar and not surprising. But once unimaginable combinations seemed wild, and therefore terribly popular.
However, fusion cuisine got its name not so long ago, despite the fact that its existence clearly numbers hundreds, and most likely even thousands of years. It is not known for certain who was the first to return to this direction. One version is French chefs who wanted to rekindle a fading interest in their culinary traditions. Another option is Americans who are angry all over the world because fast food is considered their national cuisine . In any case, the rebirth of this direction gave a powerful incentive to experiments, including at home.
How to do it?
Talented self-taught chefs, unfortunately, are rare, but this does not mean that the kitchen in
fusion style is not available to mere mortals. The first steps in this direction can be taken, guided by the following principles:
- add unusual spices to traditional dishes;
- replace habitual ingredients with more exotic ones (instead of an apple - mango or pineapple);
- combine European dishes with oriental sauces;
- experiment with design;
- adapt recipes to local tastes.
You can make an unusual note in any dish, however, you need to remember that in any case, all the ingredients must be fresh and of high quality. Even cuisine fusion does not allow the use of cheap cheese instead of parmesan in recipes
in the Italian style.
You can easily diversify your diet if you are not afraid of experimentation. At first, you can only slightly change the usual recipes, adding unfamiliar seasonings, making the dish a little more spicy or focusing on sourness. The taste of each ingredient should be felt separately, but in general, the composition must be harmonious. This is what true fusion cuisine is all about.
Other modern styles
In the conditions of fierce competition in the restaurant business, chefs have to invent new directions in order to satisfy the discerning guests. Perhaps one of the newest and most unusual styles is molecular cuisine. Its peculiarity is that all dishes are served in an extremely unexpected form: salmon cream, beet ice cream, spinach spaghetti, strawberry foam. Talented chefs believe that this is a return to the roots, pure tastes. But to repeat this at home without professional equipment is almost impossible because of the special cooking conditions. So for now, the chefs following the fashionable trends have only to master the fusion cuisine.