Make Your Sushi!
Make my Sushi!
Do you want to impress your friends by showing them you can cook and serve your favorite dish? Do your friends like Japanese food? If they do, do you want to call them over and serve them Japan's most well known food, sushi? Then you should really learn how to make sushi. Sushi is an example of many cultural dishes of Japan. It is not very difficult to make but sometimes you might struggle in some processes. There are many types of sushi so I will go through them one by one. First is the Maki sushi. Maki sushi is made with sushi rice with vinegar, also known as shari, with vegetables and a long slice of fish. To start off with, get a piece of nori sheet. Feel the nori sheet on both sides and you will find one side to be smooth and the other a little rougher. A Nori is a piece of dried or toasted seaweed. The nori should lie on the rolling mat with the rough side facing upwards. Next, we have to get busy with the rice. Get your hands wet, and take about a handful of rice and shape it into a ball. It's important to keep your hands wet while working with sushi rice because it is sticky. When you work with the nori though, you should keep them as dry as you can. That is why you should have a bowl of water (with a bit of rice vinegar added to it because if you use plain water for it the vinegar on the shari) and a dry hand-towel nearby when making sushi. Now, you have spread the rice on the nori sheet. Gently put the rice ball in the middle of the nori sheet, and start spreading it equally on the nori, creating a layer of rice covering almost the entire sheet except the upper margin of about two centimetres that should be kept uncovered. Later on, the margins need to be empty of rice in order to close the sushi roll properly. Be careful not to compress the rice, but just spread it over the nori. Now it's time to place a slice of fish (preferably no more than one) on the edge of the nori, along with one to three pre-cut slices of vegetables. Then,
Do you want to impress your friends by showing them you can cook and serve your favorite dish? Do your friends like Japanese food? If they do, do you want to call them over and serve them Japan's most well known food, sushi? Then you should really learn how to make sushi. Sushi is an example of many cultural dishes of Japan. It is not very difficult to make but sometimes you might struggle in some processes. There are many types of sushi so I will go through them one by one. First is the Maki sushi. Maki sushi is made with sushi rice with vinegar, also known as shari, with vegetables and a long slice of fish. To start off with, get a piece of nori sheet. Feel the nori sheet on both sides and you will find one side to be smooth and the other a little rougher. A Nori is a piece of dried or toasted seaweed. The nori should lie on the rolling mat with the rough side facing upwards. Next, we have to get busy with the rice. Get your hands wet, and take about a handful of rice and shape it into a ball. It's important to keep your hands wet while working with sushi rice because it is sticky. When you work with the nori though, you should keep them as dry as you can. That is why you should have a bowl of water (with a bit of rice vinegar added to it because if you use plain water for it the vinegar on the shari) and a dry hand-towel nearby when making sushi. Now, you have spread the rice on the nori sheet. Gently put the rice ball in the middle of the nori sheet, and start spreading it equally on the nori, creating a layer of rice covering almost the entire sheet except the upper margin of about two centimetres that should be kept uncovered. Later on, the margins need to be empty of rice in order to close the sushi roll properly. Be careful not to compress the rice, but just spread it over the nori. Now it's time to place a slice of fish (preferably no more than one) on the edge of the nori, along with one to three pre-cut slices of vegetables. Then,