My favourite dish

As you might have guessed from all the previous posts, my favourite dish is something along the lines of the asian kitchen. I’m talking about Sushi, in general. I love how you can taste lots of different flavors, all with the same concept: some specially prepared rice together with some other ingredients. These other ingredients include but are not limited to: Raw tuna, Raw salmon, Surimi, Cucumber, Avacado, Soy Sauce, Dried Onions and so on. Because it’s pretty hard to tell you all the recipes for these types of sushi. I’ll just talk about the preparation of the rice in general.

The recipe:

Make sure you have all the ingredients and utensils ready, to make sure you have everything, tick off the checklist on the following site: http://www.makesushi.com/how-to-make-sushi-rice/

Now for starters get the sushi rice vinegar ready, and then get your rice cooker, or if you don’t have one a regular pot will do, ready. If you’ve done that then got to washing the rice, about 80 grams per sushi roll that you want to make. Make sure to repeat the washing step untill the rice is completely starch-free. If you’ve completed this step then get to cooking the rice in either a pan or the rice cooker. If you’re using the pot, use 120% water of the rices weight. E.g. for 100 g of rice you use 120 ml water. Let it soak in a bit and then put a lid on the pot, boil it for 4 minutes and let it rest a bit again. If you’re using the rice cooker, put the rice in a sieve (with holes small enough to prevent rice passing through), hold it benath some water once more and let the water drain out. Then put the rice in the rice cooker. This time use 150% water. E.g. With 100 g of rice you’ll have to add 150 ml of water. Close the lid and lit it cook for about 10 minutes. When the rice is cooked, scoop it with a wooden spoon into a large bowl. Add 20% off the sushi rice’s weight of sushi rice vinegar. So if you have 100g of rice, use 20ml of sushi rice vinegar. Gently stir with the wooden spoon. Next let the rice cool untill it reaches body temperature, at this temperature you can create the sushi rolls the easiest. And that’s that, now go on and be creative with making sushi rolls.

Source: http://www.makesushi.com/how-to-make-sushi-rice/