Sushi (寿司)
- 2 cups Japanese rice or round rice
- 2 cups of water to soak
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Wasabi and Gari (pickled ginger)
- Nori (roasted seaweed)
- Toppings (salmon, tuna, roe, avocado, Tamago-yaki (Japanese omelet), cucumber, paprika, Philadelphia cheese , crab sticks etc
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Wash the rice in cold water, change to fresh water a couple of times and soak it for at least 30 minutes.
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Always keep the rice covered! Bring the rice to a boil. Once it starts boiling, keep boiling for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and and leave it for 10-15 minutes.
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Mix sugar, vinegar & salt and add to the rice. It’s important to quickly cool the rice and remove moisture. Use a fan if available!
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Cucumber for sushi roll. Cut cucumber in 4 horizontal pieces and remove the seed part (fillet). Cut each piece in 2-3 in horizontal pieces.
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Slice fillet of fish thinly, about 3 mm.
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Cut/slice toppings for Sushi.
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Put Nori on Sushi mat and put a thin layer of rice on the rough side of the Nori…
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Put toppings on the end closest to you.
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Traditional Norimaki roll3
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Form well. Nori will be on the outside.
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Thin Norimaki calls Hosomaki. Cucumber roll calls Kappamaki. Use half size of Nori.
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To make inside out Norimaki roll you have to wrap the mat with plastic foile.
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Put rice on Nori. Make a small mountain at your side.
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Turn around the Nori and rice. The mountain part will be away from you.
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Roll it.
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Put topping. Sesam, Furikake (rice seasoning), rom… Caliphornia roll is with cucumber, avocado, omlet and crab stick inside, topped woth sesame or tobikko (fly fish roe)
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Dompuk’s faborite. Omlet, cucumber and Philadelphia cheese inside, salmon as skin.
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Put a thin lager of salmon on the roll.
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If you have a torch, you can flambe the surface of salmon.
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Dompuk Special Roll is done! If you use smoked salmon, it will be Philadelphia roll.
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If you put thinly sliced avocado, it will be Caterpillar Roll
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Nigiri – hand formed Sushi. Make a small ball with only one hand.
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Pick up a fish fillet with another hand. If you want, you can put some Wasabi.
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Nigiri is done! You can put roe on the top.
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Salmon Nigiri is nice to flambe.
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This is Dompuk Salmon Nigiri Special. Philadelphia cheese on the top. Cayenne sauce, Shichimi (Japanse chili-based spice mix), majonese and tabasco is also nice.
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Toppings which is difficult to be together with rice ball (avocado, eel, mussel), you can use Nori as belt.
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Sushi Moriawase (assorted sushi)!
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