Are you interested in making sushi at home? At first, let's learn to make good sushi rice.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: 80 minutes
Here's How:
- After washing Japanese rice well and soaking in water, cook and steam the rice.
See How to Cook Japanese Rice - Make sushi vinegar (sushi-zu) by mixing rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a sauce pan. Heat it on low heat until the sugar dissolves.
- Cool the vinegar mixture.
- Spread hot cooked rice into a large plate or a large bowl by shamoji (spatula).
*If you have it, use a wooden bowl called sushi-oke. - Sprinkle the vinegar mixture over the rice and fold the rice by shamoji quickly. Be careful not to smash the rice.
- To cool and remove the moisture of the rice well, use a fan as you mix sushi rice. This will give sushi rice a shiny look.
- The sushi rice is ready. It's best to use it right away.
Tips:
- Japanese rice is short grain rice and gets sticky when it is cooked. Long grain rice isn't proper for sushi because it is drier and doesn't stick together well.
What You Need:
- 3 cups Japanese rice
- 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 2 Tbsps sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 1/4 cups water
