making sushi

[sangie]

Does anybody know how to make sushi? I abolutely love it and would love to make some but I have absolutely no idea and I'm not the best cook so I'm a bit scared....is it easy?

[Rouge]

Make up some sushi rice (about 1 1/2 cups) and allow to cool, add some rice wine vinegar (measurements is on the bottle). Get yourself some seaweed sheets and a bamboo roller.

When putting the rice in the paper, allow 1cm at the end without rice, so that the paper will stick to itself when rolled. Add your fillings to the that is completely covered in rice. Now I like wasabi, japanese mayo and toasted sesame seeds in nearly EVERY roll I make but it depends on your liking. You can use tinned tuna, teryaki chicken, cooked prawn or crab meat, smoked salmon or even strips of egg. The fillings really depend on your taste, just try and remember to keep the fillings in long strips as its easier to roll this way.

My fave's are:

Smoked Salmon & Avocado
Tuna & Cucumber
Terriyaki chiken & cucumber & yellow capsicum

My favourite sushi of all has to be brown rice sushi. We have a sushi specialist (and I don't mean a regular little shop I mean this guy makes most from scratch, you can tell he takes it all very seriously and actually speaks clear japanese to some patrons ) and him & his wife make the BEST brown rice sushi, I hate brown rice but LOVE his recipe. It gives a nutty flavour and actually enhances the sushi flavours! So I'm going to experiment with that and see if I can do it too And when I do I'll let you know how

[christy]

We use almost the same recipe for rice as Cailin and fill it with whatever I have in the house

tuna & avocado
Avocado, cucumber, salmon
prawn, avocado, lettuce

We also go to Asian grocers & pick up some Inari pockets which are bean curd pockets & you stuff them with the sushi rice.... they are sweet & yum. And we pick up salmon roe to put in the sushi.

[Rouge]

ooooo I love inari pockets! And you can't go without the salmon roe YUM YUM!

Another fave is (which isn't too authentic but still yummy) is peking sushi... sounds bizarre but its great, we have peking duck, sauce, spring onion & Carrot.

Oh and with the terriyaki chicken I like to stir fry some thick slivers of onion in terriyaki sauce and put that in as well!

I want sushi NOW!

Oh christy is it true that in some places in the US you can get cream cheese in sushi?! A friend told me that and I was like whaaaaat?

[Astrid]

I love inari as well, but I prefer the plain ones. I am depressed, as far as I can tell there is no decent sushi down this way May have to consider making my own.

[sangie]

I love tuna and cucumber so maybe I'll start with that! Ok dumb questions coming: how do you make sushi rice? and where do you get seaweed sheets/bamboo roller, do I need to find an asian grocery store or can you get in regular supermarket?

[Yael]

I make up some sushi rice and then i add some white sugar and some vinegar.

My friend found out from a place thats what they add by pretending she had allergies. It makes the rice taste creamy for some reason.

I also saw these sushi makers at some homewares shop, where the cylinder comes apart in centre for you to make the perfect roll, and then it pushes it out onto the seaweed sheet for you. Almost looked like one of those icing decorators.

Really wanted it, but they were $30 and Dh said noway cos i hardly ever make sushi, despite loving it to pieces! I replied if i had it i would make it more often, but he didn't buy that excuse... someday i'll sneak back to southland and buy it when he's not there!

[Pandora]

Safeway normally have a good stock of sushi mats, seaweed, sushi rice etc. I assume Coles and other supermarkets do too, you probbably dont have to go anywhere more specialised.

[sangie]

ok thanks I'll check out the supermarket - hhhmm wish I had some right now.