How to make sushi
This is the first time I make sushi so I am in no way an expert at this but I learned bits and pieces through google, about.com and snapguide. Feel free to give me advice :)
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STEPS
INGREDIENTS
You can use more ingredients if you want
Clean rice and drain for an hour
Add water (I used warm) to rice and cook over low heat for 15 min. For every cup of rice use 1.25 cups of water. For each yaki nuri mat u will need around 0.75 cups of fresh rice
After you cook the rice for 15 min turn off the heat and let it stand for 10 min. Do some preparation work while waiting (see next steps)
Prepare rice sauce. Mix two tbs of rice vinegar, two tbs of sugar, one tbs o salt and mix thoroughly. This qty will be enough for 1.5 cups of rice
After waiting for 10 min for the rice to cool down place them on a plate(s) and spread them out with a fork as much as possible breaking rice lumps
Cool the rice with a fan or magazine
Add the rice sauce evenly onto the rice and mix them well so all the rice grains are more or less coated. Don't forget to mix the sauce before this step as the ingredients might settle
The rice becomes shiny and smells good
Clean and peal the avocado
Slice. Keep the seed to make a avocado tree (guide can be found on snapguide)
Clean and peel cucumber
Slice as thin as possible removing seeds
Clean and peel carrots ( u can use normal carrots too)
Slice 'em
Clean FRESH shrimps
Remove the black lines from inside
Coat with flour and water (paste like) and deep fry for a few minutes till golden brown
Now we can start rolling ;) get your sushi mat and yaki nori ready
Place yaki nori on sushi mat with the NOT SHINY SIDE (rice side) UPWARD. Get the rice (now at room temperature) and a bowl with clean water ready.
Wet your hand and take a handful of rice to place on the yaki nori
Evenly distribute rice on yaki nori with a uniform thickness of 1 cm. keep hand wet to avoid the rice sticking on your hand.
Keep a gap of 1 inch at the top
Put your veggies (you can go creative here)
This is half salmon half shrimp tempura
Roll and squeeze
California rolls are upside down makis so put rice on all the yaki nori and sprinkle sesame on the rice
Flip upside down
Avocado and crab legs, some mayo if you want
Put the overlapped side facing down to seal
Ready to cut? Get a sharp knife, a bowl of water and a platter
Voila!
Dip in soya sauce, add wasabi if desired and devour the bits of heavenly food
Enjoy with friends and family and don't forget to comment how did your experience go? Again, I'm not an expert so I would appreciate the comments :)
- 3.0 Nori
- 1.0Tbsp Salt
- 2.0Tbsp Sugar
- 1/2c Rice
- 2.0Tbsp Rice vinegar
- 1.0 Guacamole
- 1.0 Cucumber
- 2/5kg Fresh shrimps
- 1.0bnch Baby Carrot
- 1/8g Fresh or smoked salmon
- 2.0Tbsp Sesame
- 5/8c Water
- Good appetite for sushi
- Helper
- Soya sauce
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