Making sushi is easy. It just requires some practice. The good thing is that you have to eat your practice and they will taste just as good as a well shaped rolls…maybe just a bit loose. I have calculated the cost is about one-third of the cost of take-out sushi restaurant, even when you buy your fish at an expensive fish store. Just make sure your fish is sushi grade. A good fish store will tell you, they want your business back.
Ingredients:
- 500 ml sushi rice
- 625 ml water
- 50 ml rice vinegar for the rice and another 50 ml to be added to a bowl of water to dip your hands
- Nori sheets (dried black algae sold in pack)
- Strips of fish (salmon or tuna are the best), cut in about 1 cm of diameter. You can use the leftover pieces from your Nigiri Sushi
- Cucumber, carrot, avocado or mango, cut in fine stripes
- Wasabi
Method:
- In a medium size sauce pan, wash the rice four to five times
- Add water to the rice and bring to a boil for 5 minutes
- Reduce the heat and let simmer for 20 additional minutes
- Transfer the cooked rice to a non metallic bowl (wooden if you can) and add 50 ml of rice vinegar
- Mixing for about 15 minutes to cool. If you can have help, ask someone to fan the rice while you are mixing it. This method makes the rice shinny.
- Place a Nori leaf on a bamboo mat (sold in any Asian store and some groceries)
- Damper your hands in the bowl of water, which the remaining vinegar was added. Make sure your hands remain damp to prevent the rice from sticking to them
- Spread a handful of rice on the nori, making sure to compact the rice
- With your finger, spread a bit (and I mean a bit!) of wasabi about 1 or 2 cm from the bottom edge of the rice.
- Place strips of fish and vegetable/fruit sticks over the wasabi
- Roll the mat away from you so the fish will be at the centre of the roll.
- Clue to close the top end of the nori use a small amount of water to seal the roll
- With a sharp knife, that you have immersed in the bowl of water before, cut the roll in two, then each of the two, in four so you end up with 8 rolls
