Make Sushi
Lots of people love sushi, but think it can only be procured outside the home. Here's a simple guide to making sushi in your kitchen!
Contents
Ingredients
- Fish, shellfish or other topping
- Sushi rice
- Unsalted dried seaweed (layer sheets prepared for making sushi)
- Rice wine vinegar
- Sugar
- Salt
Optional condiments:
- Wasabi
- Pickled ginger
- Soy sauce
Steps
- Select 2 types of veggies (cucumbers and carrots) and a fish (for instance artificial cooked crab). Also, buy some dried seaweed (also known as nori) and uncooked rice.
- Place about 2 cups of sushi rice in a rice cooker and then rinse the rice repeatedly until the rice water is not cloudy. Then fill the rice pot with new water (how much water depends on the amount of rice of the cooker and the same goes for how long to cook it; the instructions are usually in the box).
- Wash the veggies and place them on a cutting board and cut the carrots in half long wise and then cut them into long skinny strips. Repeat on the cucumber.
- Cut the crab into little strips and make sure they are pretty even in length.
- Check on your rice. If it's ready, take it out and put it in a dish.
- Take a bowl and pour in about two tablespoons of rice wine vinegar. You can add more or less depends on your taste buds and how separated you want your grains or rice. It is better to put in less right now and add more later. Add in sugar and salt and stir until it dissolves (repeat until it tastes good).
- Pour the mixture onto the rice and mix thoroughly by "slicing" the rice. Add rice wine vinegar if needed to make the grains of rice separate easily.
- Place the seaweed layer on a bamboo mat and then spread rice onto the seaweed. It should be spread out so there are no empty holes and it should fill the middle third. Dampen the end edge with rice vinegar so it sticks when you roll it. Place the strips of the veggies and the crab onto rice.
- Roll the bamboo into a long roll by first folding the bottom third in then roll it up. It should look like a tube of some sort. Now remove the sushi roll from the bamboo and cut out as follows.
- Cut down the middle of the roll, take each half and place them parallel to each other. Repeat by cutting both halves down the middle simultaneously, take those portions and repeat one last time. This cutting technique insures that the ingredients do not spill out of the roll.
- Serve and enjoy!
Tips
- Make sure the rice is moist and sticky.
- If you plan on making sushi, be sure to keep all of the ingredients nice and cold.
- Dip the sushi in soy sauce lightly. Dunking the sushi in the soy sauce takes away the purpose of sushi and covers the flavor with the taste of salt.
- Try different ingredients, like raw salmon, which is mild for amateurs.
- Add pickled ginger or wasabi for added taste.
- Use thin slices of ginger to reset your taste buds between different varieties of sushi.
- If you use wasabi, put a very tiny bit in your soy sauce and mix gently.
- Look for instructions on the ingredients (rice, vinegar).
Warnings
- Be careful with the knife and hot objects! Clean and cook sushi before using.
Things You'll Need
- knife
- bamboo mat
- rice cooker
