Easy Sushi making ideas?
ok, so I bought this cool little sushi making kit at the county fair.
It's the cutest thing. I need some tips for those of you who make?
Can I just buy lox? Smoked salmon? I'm not so into raw fish. Shrimp (pre cooked)?
The sticky rice needs to be cold right?
Help!
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The sticky rice does need to be cooled to room temp.
I make veggie sushi with avocado, cucumber and carrots. Sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on the rice after it is spread on the nori for a little extra flavor.
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I always use rice vinegar on my sushi rice, and I make sure to wash it a billion times before steaming it.
I use all kinds of different "fillings," but avacado, tempeh, carrot, cucumber are favs, and I will roll just rice and nori for snacks for the kids.
The wise poet Rumi tells us--
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there
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I always just guess, but I would say about 2 cups of rice would take 2-3 tablespoons. RV is also weaker when the rice is hot, so if you add it when the rice is hot, don't over add thinking that you can't taste it, ya know?
Also many traditional recipes call for about a tablespoon of sugar.
The wise poet Rumi tells us--
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there
http://www.ponycherry.blogspot.com/
carrot, cucumber and/or avocado. You could do crab too
straight up avocado, but i'm more into sushi for the sake and hot towels anyway. oh and the miso soup. and the green tea ice cream after. mmmmmmmm avocado rolls!
green tea ice cream *drool*
and wasabi! For me it's all about feeling the steam explode out the top of your head. Really what you put in there is secondary to what you put on there.
Tigerfish Mama
One of our favorite recurrent dinner parties when we lived in the city was a sushi potluck. You cook up a big rice cooker full of rice and provide the seaweed wrappers and have everyone bring their own fillings to share. To motivate everyone to out do each other,everyone pays $5 at the door, and votes on the best roll at the end of the night - winner gets the pot. Amazing the ideas folks come up with (and then you don't have to plan the menu)
Standard veggie sushi options around my place include: deep fried sweet potato and avocado, marinated mushrooms (the little white japanese ones with the tiny caps and the long stems -?enoki? or something like that), tofu with shredded carrots. Have fun!!
I don't do all those tips like spreading it out and melting the sugar and stuff...man I've actually used powdered sugar before.
I make sushi rice almost every night for my kid's and Dp lunches, but they love onigiri shaped sushi. Basically is's a rice ball (which isn't shaped like a ball for some reason, traditionally it's a triangle, but I have little molds that make them heart and flower shaped) with a strip of nori on it for holding the rice.
Any time you add RV to the rice it technically becomes sushi, even if you shape it like onigiri.
So, my point is that you should get some RV and just experiment to figure out what you like. Oh, but washing the rice is important, def do that.
The wise poet Rumi tells us--
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there
http://www.ponycherry.blogspot.com/
ha, i married one!
is awesome. you can also use smoked salmon and cooked shrimp and crab. Unagi is the barbecued eel and you can get that in asian markets.
nuts, basil, fresh or blanched veggies, fruit (think apple slices), sauces (spicy aioli, peanut sauce), oh you name it, it can go in there.
happy rolling.
Check out her website and see what you can find.
The tip I found most helpful (besides how to season the rice) was to have a bowl of ice water handy to dip your hands into. That way the rice won't stick to them as you spread it.
Favorite fillings:
fake cooked crab meat (available in the freezer section at asian grocery stores)
cooked shrimp
avocado
green onion (not too much)
cooked asperagus, carrot, summer squash, yam, shitake mushrooms, etc
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