Japanese cuisine is often preferred by people who practice healthy eating. Traditional foods of the Land of the Rising Sun are not only tasty, but also balanced, which helps to maintain normal levels of nutrients in the body. This section describes how to make sushi yourself.

What you need for cooking Japanese cuisine

What to cook homemade sushi, you need to acquire special devices, as well as purchase the products that are necessary to create any type of this dish.

 

First of all, you need to choose the right pic. If in a nearby supermarket there is a department for the production of Japanese dishes, you should buy a special cereal for sushi rolls. If one was not found, the Kuban round-grain version is also suitable. Long grains in this case are not suitable, because they will not stick together properly and the “bun” or roll will fall apart.

In addition, you need rice vinegar. It is not only added to the base of the dish, but also used when cutting rolls. If you dampen the knife in this liquid, cutting the workpiece is not difficult, otherwise the cooked rice will begin to stick to the blade. And also in rice vinegar they moisten their hands when forming “koloboks” or rolls, this greatly facilitates the process.

You also need to stock up on a special mat, which is convenient to twist rolls. It is recommended to tighten it with cling film, since it is almost impossible to wash this device well after cooking.

Many sushi recipes use nori. These are algae that are pressed, dried and sold in the form of “sheets”.The remaining ingredients are selected depending on what type of dish will be prepared.

On a note. Many people confuse definitions of sushi and rolls, mistakenly considering them one and the same dish. In fact, the former are lumps of rice cereal, inside or on top of which various ingredients are placed. And rolls are ranked as a variety of sushi, and are made in the form of small rolls.

How to cook rice for sushi

It is important not only to choose correctly, but also to cook rice for sushi.

Perform work in a certain order:

  1. Put the grains in a metal sieve and wash in cool water until the leaking liquid becomes transparent.
  2. Pour the grains into a large bowl with dense walls (or a multicooker bowl), pour water in an amount twice the mass of rice cereal, put on a stove and wait for boiling.
  3. Turn the heating to the minimum, close the container with a lid and wait a quarter of an hour. It is undesirable to open the dishes and mix the grains.
  4. In another container, mix 30-50 ml of rice vinegar, salt and a little sugar, and then heat on a hot plate or in the microwave until the dry ingredients dissolve.
  5. Combine the hot composition with the cereal and mix thoroughly.

Attention! Prepared to create sushi rice should be used immediately as it cools. If you store it in the refrigerator even for a short time, the taste of the dish will completely deteriorate.

Making Sushi Vinegar

As mentioned earlier, rice vinegar is a must for sushi rolls. But what to do in a situation if this product is not available? You can create an analog in one of the following ways.

Method 1

Take the required amount of balsamic vinegar, pour a little salt and granulated sugar, mix.

Method 2

Pour salt and sugar into the white wine composition to taste, warm the mass to dissolve the loose components.

Method 3

Use plum vinegar as a base, which is combined with a small amount of honey, sugar and salt.

Method 4

Take lemon or lime juice and combine with sugar and salt. If these ingredients do not dissolve well, a little warm up is permissible.

Method 5

Make a sauce of grape composition, sugar and salt, warming until the grains melt.

Method 6

Combine malic acid with sugar and salt and act in the same way as in the above case.

Method 7

Pour the same volume of soy sauce into 3% vinegar, add a little sugar, stir and warm until the sand dissolves.

On a note. The described compositions are suitable not only for sushi. They are used in the creation of salads from funchose, if you add red pepper and other hot spices to them.

The easiest recipe for beginners

Mistresses who have never made sushi or rolls on their own, and who fear failure, can use the simplest recipe. In this case, the dish is presented in the form of “koloboks”, inside of which there will be a filler.

 

For work you will need:

  • 0.22 kg of rice;
  • pickled shrimp (2 in each serving);
  • long cucumber;
  • 30 ml rice vinegar;
  • little sugar and salt.

How to cook a dish:

  1. We cook cereals, season with sauce of vinegar, sugar and salt.
  2. We roll a small "gingerbread man" of rice, make a recess in the middle, put a couple of shrimp.
  3. Take a little more boiled cereal, form a lump that can be slightly flattened.
  4. Put a thin slice of cucumber on top of the serving and place it on a flat plate.
  5. In the same way we make sushi from the remaining products.

This dish is served with soy sauce, pickled slices of ginger and wasabi. As devices, both special sticks and ordinary forks are suitable.

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Classic sushi at home

It is difficult to say which sushi recipe can be called classic. Here is the most common way to create this dish, and the portions will be presented in the form of rolls.

The following components will be required:

  • a glass of rice cereal;
  • a piece of lightly salted trout or salmon;
  • avocado fruit;
  • cucumber;
  • several layers of nori;
  • 35-40 ml of rice vinegar;
  • a pinch of sugar and salt.

How to cook sushi rolls yourself:

  1. Boil rice, make a dressing of rice vinegar, combine the components.
  2. We cut the following ingredients into thin strips: salmon, cucumber and avocado pulp.
  3. We lay the nori on the mat, distribute the rice on it with an even and rather thin layer, leaving a small margin of about 1 cm wide on one side of the sheet where we do not place the cereal.
  4. From the side opposite to the one where rice is not laid, we place in a row strips of salmon, cucumber and avocado.
  5. Using a mat, twist the roll, gently squeezing it so that it turns out to be quite dense.
  6. We spread the resulting workpiece on the board for cutting “seam” down, wet the knife in vinegar and cut portions.

On a note. You can do the opposite, wrapping the rolls so that the rice layer is not located inside, but outside, but it will require some skill. It is not necessary to leave a reserve on a nori leaf.

Cooking with herring

Salmon is an expensive pleasure, so you can replace it with salted herring. The dish will turn out no worse.

The following ingredients will be required for operation:

  • a glass of rice;
  • 200 g of herring fillet;
  • 120 g of processed cheese (such that it can be cut into cubes);
  • a few tablespoons of rice vinegar;
  • to taste salt and sugar.

How to make sushi with herring:

  1. Boil rice, season with a mixture of vinegar, sugar and salt.
  2. Cut the herring fillet into thin short slices, so that they fit on top of the portions.
  3. Dice the cream cheese.
  4. We form a “gingerbread man” from a small amount of rice, put a cheese cube inside, and then make the workpiece slightly flattened.
  5. We spread sushi on a dish, decorate with a piece of herring on top.
  6. In a similar way, we form portions from the remaining products.

Ready sushi should be put on the table right away, additionally placing marinated ginger and “islands” of wasabi sauce on a plate.

With chicken

Original and quite tasty rolls are obtained if they are made with chicken. Just take for this you need a bird fillet.

Such products will be required:

  • 0.22-0.25 kg of rice;
  • 1 piece of fillet;
  • 68-80 g of soft cheese;
  • cucumber;
  • nori packing;
  • rice vinegar, sugar and salt as desired.

How to cook a dish:

  1. Boil rice grains, season with a mass of vinegar, salt and sugar.
  2. We cut the fillet into thin strips, just chop the cucumber and cheese piece. If the latter is so soft that it is impossible to cut it, it remains only to lubricate with it that part of the rice on which the filler will be placed.
  3. We lay the nori on the mat, moisten the palms in rice vinegar and distribute the grains throughout the sheet, leaving a small margin around the edge.
  4. We spread the prepared strips on the grits, turn the roll, and then cut.

On a note. You can make the taste of this dish more vivid if you add a little Korean carrot to the filling.

How to Make Baked Sushi

When there is time, you can make delicious food - baked sushi.

To complete the dish you need such components:

  • a glass of rice cereal;
  • a piece of salted salmon;
  • avocado fruit;
  • a jar of capelin caviar;
  • a couple of tablespoons of cream cheese;
  • layers of nori;
  • soy sauce to taste;
  • some sugar and salt;
  • sesame bag;
  • baking parchment.

How to cook a dish:

  1. Boil the cereals, sprinkle with sugar, salt, stir.
  2. We mix capelin caviar with a small amount of soy sauce, and put soft cream cheese there.
  3. Cut the fish fillet and avocado pulp into strips.
  4. We lay the nori on the mat, distribute the rice groats, place the fish and avocados on top, roll the roll and cut into portions.
  5. We cover the baking sheet with parchment paper, spread the rolls, decorate them on top with the cheese caviar sauce, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
  6. We put the rolls in the oven for no more than 5 minutes, and then use them hot. Https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = UNJBDvqZ2UE

Guided by the above cooking methods, you can make sushi rolls in different ways. All types of fish are used for the filler, and not only in salted, but also smoked or pickled form. It is also permissible to take seafood, any greens, various types of cheeses, shiitake mushrooms, vegetables and more.

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