Make a Sushi Roll
Sushi rolls used to be expensive delicacies for fancy parties only. Now they're for everything from weddings to midnight snacks. Here is a fun way to make the little Japanese sushi rolls everyone loves!
Contents
Ingredients
- Several sheets of Yaki Nori (dried seaweed)
- A bag of short grain sushi rice
- Vegetables such as cucumber or carrot - feel free to get creative and use new types of vegetables
- Fish of some sort, such as tuna, salmon; or, if preferred, you can use steak or chicken
- Mirin (rice wine)
- Rice vinegar
- Sesame seeds (for inside out sushi)
Steps
- Cook your rice in your rice cooker. Most packages of nori have instructions for seasoning.
- Chop and prepare your vegetables and fish.
- Put the nori on the bamboo mat shiny side down.
- Remove the rice from the rice cooker and put it into a bowl.
- Add seasoned rice vinegar to moisten the rice (but not too wet).
- Wet your hands, then spread the rice on the nori leaving about an inch of nori without rice at the top.
- With your thumb make a line in the middle of rice.
- Fill in the gap with your chosen ingredients.
- Roll the sushi with the bamboo mat.
- Wet your knife then cut the roll into the desired size.
- Enjoy!
Steps For Inside-Out Sushi
- Cook your rice in your rice cooker. Most packages of nori have instructions for seasoning.
- Chop and prepare your vegetables and fish.
- Put the nori on the bamboo mat, shiny side down.
- Remove the rice from the rice cooker, put it into a bowl.
- Spread the rice on the nori then flip it over.
- Place your filling on the bottom of the nori.
- Roll the sushi, then cut into the desired length. Now enjoy!
Tips
- Remember to wet your hands often to avoid getting rice stuck to your hands
- Remember to wash your hands.
Warnings
- Consumption of raw fish may cause food-borne diseases.
- Be careful when cutting your sushi roll.
Things You'll Need
- A rice cooker
- A bamboo sushi mat
- A bowl of water
- A knife
