Definition of surimi
: a fish product made from inexpensive whitefish and often processed to resemble more expensive seafood (such as crabmeat)
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Most diners at this point know the difference between real crab and surimi, the processed fish paste that contains no actual crab but is textured and seasoned to mimic the genuine article, however poorly.
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And the ever-popular California sushi roll is made with surimi (imitation crab) that contains wheat.
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Try the steamed shrimp version with sushi rice, red onion, spicy motoyaki sauce, avocado, cucumber, seaweed salad, sweet sesame sauce and the imitation crab known as surimi.
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For Alaska pollock roe and surimi, for example, 4.2 percent tariffs going into Japan would have immediately gone to zero, said Ron Rogness of American Seafoods Company.
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Russian purchases of Alaska seafood totaled at least 20 million pounds of mostly pink salmon roe and pollock surimi annually, valued at $60 million, according to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.
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Most sushi restaurants serve imitation crab meat (or surimi) which is other, more cost-effective fish ground up and mashed together with binders that often contain gluten.
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The mega maki required approximately 500 cups of vinegared rice, 800 sheets of nori paper, 125 avocados and 200 pounds of surimi, a fish paste.
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The fish is used in fish sandwiches, frozen fish sticks, omega-3 oils and surimi.
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Origin and Etymology of surimi
Japanese, chopped meat or fish
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