SUSHI RICE (Base of any Sushi)

Ingredients:
1)Rice (approx 650g when cooked)
* Japanese Sticky Rice 2 cups
*Water 2cups~2.2cups(depends on the brand of rice)
①Rinse rice thoroughly with water till the water becomes clear, put
rice into a pressure cooker, add 2 cups of water, and simmer at least
30min.
②Put it on high flame, after the pressure-cooker whistles once, turn to low flame and wait for 6 minutes. Rice is done when the pressure goes away.
Or use Rice Cooker.

2)Sushi-Vinegar for 2 cups of rice

*Vinegar (Preferably Japanese Vinegar, if not Apple Cider Vinegar) 65g
*Breakfast Sugar(Fine powder sugar)30g
*Salt 6g
*Kombu(Seaweed for making broth) 3cm: In case you don't get Kombu, add a pinch of veg broth powder.)
①Add all ingredients into a bowl, mix it well till sugar and salt dissolve, and set it aside for 1hour till Kombu becomes bigger.

3)Sushi Rice
①When rice is cooked, put it in a Sushi-Oke or shallow bowl, and
sprinkle the Sushi -Vinegar all over it. (You have to mix them
while the rice is hot.)
②Try to mix rice and Sushi Vinegar evenly with Shamoji(Rice Paddle)or Spatula, like scooping vertically.

③Cover the Sushi- Rice with a wrung wet cloth, wait for 5~6 min to let the rice absorb the vinegar.

④Sushi Rice is ready, you can use it for FUTOMAKI(Roll Sushi),
NIGIRI, GUNKAN-MAKI(Battleship Roll), CALIFORNIA ROLL, etc., etc.

Other tips)
For NIGIRI, using 17~20g each Sushi Rice is the ideal size.
You can add veg,non-veg on top of it.

For MAKIZUSHI, (medium size roll sushi see the photo below)
you will need approx 160g Sushi Rice each.

Here are some ideas for toppings for Gunkan-Maki
Veg:
*Avocado(Thinly Sliced)
*Baby corn(boiled)
*Ginger Pickle(thinly sliced)
*Mini Tomato(cut into halves) and Olive
*Daikon (Japanese radish, thinly sliced)
*String beans(butter-sauteed)
*Taro Potato(boiled and thinly sliced)

Non Veg:
*Raw fish, thinly sliced
*Tuna(canned Tuna Chunks) mixed with mayonnaise
*Smoked Salmon with caper
*Prawn(Boiled with a pinch of salt)
*Tamago-yaki(Japanese Rolled Egg)

Enjoy your Sushi at home!!!

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