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How to Make Sushi Rice
How to Make Gunkan-maki (Battleship Sushi)
By Setsuko Yoshizuka, About.com
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). The name came from the shape of this sushi which resembles a battleship (gunkan).
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- Prepare sushi rice.
- Cut nori.
- Shape sushi rice into ovals.
- Wrap nori around the rice.
- Shape the base.
- Place toppings.
- Gunkan-maki are served.
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