Sushi???

I have a new found love

Sushi.....

Only problem is I cant buy it here in the country :rolleyes: so it means im gonna have to make it myself :dance:

Id love to try making different varieties and fillings....can anyone help me please :pray:

Do you mean sushi rolls?
You need to get some rolling mats.
Do you have a recipe for mixing the rice?
This is the Tokyo style The Osaka style uses more sugar.

Start by putting some sushi rice in your cooker with water. Only wash it 3 times and don't be too rough with it.

While it's cooking make your dressing
Half a cup of sushi vinegar
1 teaspoon rock or sea salt
1 tablespoon caster sugar.

Put the vinegar and salt in a saucepan. When the salt disolves add the sugar and stir until it disolves too. Don't boil it. Once the sugar is all dissolved remove it from the heat.

When your rice is cooked tip it into a large flat bottomed not metal bowl. Use your rice paddle to spread it evenly then add some dressing to the rice rice - you want to kind of slice through it to stir. Keep stirring and adding dressing until your rice is all flavoured up. You don't need to finish the dressing. If you use too much it will be gluggy not fluffy.
You might be able to find a youtube video so you see the technique.

Don't refridgerate or it will get hard. Discard what you don't use - it doesn't keep for more than a day.

If you get the rice right your rolls will be fantastic - even those lumpy uneven first efforts ;)

The best way to cool the rice down is with a hand held fan :)

And if you can use a wooden bowl do as thats the traditional way.

thank you so much :) yes I ment the roll's

I read somewere to put rice vinegar in with it but didnt know about the sugar.

I'll have to get a wooden bowl now...the kids are hanging to make them

I buy sushi kits from coles or safeway .... coz me dont cook ;) but it comes with everything you need but not the filling...

And if you really want to cheat, you can get a thing that helps with the rolling from Robins Kitchen.

Hmmm.. Glad DH has 5 days of this week, cause now I want sushi..

Dh's fav is smoked salmon & avocado. I like teriaki chicken ones..

XH bought a sushi roll maker thingy from a shop. It makes making sushi super easy. I think it may have been about $20? (I got to keep it hehehe)

If you want to have a try with what's in your pantry, try putting some white vinegar, white sugar & salt into the water that your boiling your rice in & cook it absorbtion method.

You don't really need one of those sushi roller things, you can roll by hand. They just help, but they are not essential.

You can put absolutely anything you can think of into sushi rolls: Think of yummy sandwich fillings you like.

*Tuna & mayo
*Advocado
*Smoked salmon
*Chicken
*Egg

Have fun and let us know what combos you coem up with!!

How did you go with your sushi Maz?? :hello: