Corn Gunkan-maki Recipe

Gunkan-maki is a kind of sushi, which is a mound of sushi rice wrapped with a strip of nori and topped with soft ingredients, such as uni (sea urchin) and ikura (salmon roe). Gunkan means a battleship in Japanese. This gunkan-maki uses corn as topping.
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Japanese Sushi

Ingredients:

• 4 sheets nori (dried seaweed)
• *For sushi rice:
• 1 1/2 cup Japanese rice
• 1 2/3 cup water
• 3 Tbsp vinegar
• 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• *For topping:
• 1/2 can, or 6oz. whole kernel corn, drained
• 3 Tbsp Mayonnaise
• 1 tsp soy sauce

Preparation:

Start cooking rice. Cut a sheet of nori into 1 1/2 inch wide strips. Mix corn, mayonnaise, and soy sauce in a bowl. Prepare sushi rice. Wet your palms and fingers with sushi vinegar mixture used to make sushi rice. Take about two tablespoons of sushi rice in your hand and lightly shape it into an oval. Repeat the process to make mounds of sushi rice. Dry your hands. Take a nori strip and wrap it around a mound of sushi rice. The nori should be higher than the rice. Press nori gently to rice and form a base. Place corn topping on the rice.
*Makes 16-20 pieces

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