sushi maniac!!

[machimaro037]

recently..i'm soooo into sushi making most of them are maki-sushi and tamago sushi the shapes are not very good but i think the taste is ok (bcoz it'll be finished everytime i make it..hehe) actually..it is quite easy to make this dish juz a bit of skills and right techniques will make it turn well here.. i want to share a home-made sushi recipe these are the ingredients and how to prepare it:

SUSHI RICE

• 3 cups   sushi rice (i use calrose rice)
• 1/2 cup  vinegar
• 2 tbs      sugar
• 2 ts        salt

Methods :

1. clear the rice from all sorts of impurities
2. wash the rice with running water until there is no more starch coming out of it
3. take the rice and place it gently in a pot
4. add a little bit more water than rice ( the ratio is about 1.15/1 in favor of the water)
5. cook the rice on high heat at first, stir every minute until the water boils
6. then..stop stirring, lower the heat to minimum and cover the pot
7. after 6-8 minutes, check the water level
8. if there is no more water, that means the rice is ready
9. take the rice out of the pot using wooden spoon (metals will damage the sushi rice)
10. mix together the rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a pot on medium heat until all solids mixed well
11. pour mixture on rice and stir well
12. let rice cool down for a few minutes until it is within the room temperature

p/s: there's no need to add sugar and salt if we use sushi vinegar in the meantime, we can prepare the fillings


FILLINGS

• sausage
• crab stick
• tamago yaki (fried eggs)
• japanese cucumber        
• carrot

Methods :

1. cut the tamago yaki, cucumber and carrot into long slices

p/s : we can steam the sausages and crab sticks if we don't like to eat it raw


OTHERS

• nori sheets (dried seaweed)

after all the things were prepared, we can start wrapping the sushi for the best result, it's better to use the bamboo mat to wrap it but..instead of that, we also can use plastic wrap if we couldn't find one

Methods :

1. take a nori sheet and place it on the bamboo mat
2. wet your hand and spread the cooked rice on top of the nori sheet
3. put in slices of cucumber, tamago yaki and sausage
4. roll and cut
5. repeat step 3 and 4 by replacing the fillings
   
   
   the result is..tadaa~~
   
       
   my 1st attempt..not really in a good figure ne~ hehe..
   
   
   
   my bento..the shape is improving~ thanks to bamboo mat-kun!  ^__^
   
   
   for more various sushi recipes please refer to this website http://makemysushi.com that's all from me..hope everyone can try it *credit to makemysushi.com for the sushi rice recipe
   
   
   P/S : for Muslims, make sure that you carefull enough when choosing the vinegar, nori and shouyu (japanese soy-sauce) bcoz most of them contain mirin