Since my resolution this year is to eat like Japanese I had to learn to make sushi! And on the contrary to what
you think, it’s easy to do it and so much fun to break the mystery!
I was talking to my cousin also named Samia in honor to our
Grandmother’s name, and she is a Japanese teacher and lover of Japanese culture
and food so she gave me the list of things to buy to make sushi, one of them
being the wood we need to roll the nori leaves around the rice and other
ingredients we put in side. Don’t worry I’ll explain it all!
I am sure many of you will be interested to learn it! An idea
is to make it for your husband on Valentine’s Day or on his
birthday!
So yalla here go the ingredients and how to do it! You will
need to buy: Nori leaves, the wood to roll ( you find it in the shelf for sushi
stuff), rice vinegar, rice, wasabi, soy sauce low sodium version, sesame seeds,
tuna, salmon, shrimp, crab, cucumber, avocado, carrot, ginger for sushi to eat
with moderation
1) For 3 cups of rice you will need 6 cups of water. Choose
rice that doesn’t stick. Boil, and then when it’s done, put in a big plate
where you can spread them. Then, take a fork and move the grains so they don’t
stick together. Do this every 5 minutes until you are ready to use them. You
will use them when the rice is cool, and not sticky. In the meantime you can
start washing and cutting the other ingredients.
2) Clean 4 cucumbers and cut them long and thin, same for
carrots. Cut the avocados long and thin too.
3) In a bowl: pour 2 small coffee cups of rice vinegar with
6 teaspoons of sugar and mix.
4) When the rice is cooled, mix it with the mix of rice
vinegar with sugar and keep on moving the grains with the fork until you start
rolling so that they don’t stick.
Now: take your wood. Put the nori paper on it and
spread the rice on the nori paper. (Put the rice on the non-shining side of the
nori). At one side of the rice, add whatever you like: a thin layer of crab
sticks, next to a think layer of avocado for a example). Then turn the nori
with everything on it with the wood like you see me doing in the picture. You
will get big columns of sushi but you have to wait a little while before
cutting them in small pieces like at the restaurant because they need to stick
well together. The secret of a pretty presentable sushi is how you roll it!
Need a little practicing and it will be great!
We can do the same with just rice without the nori paper.
Place the rice directly on the wood. Then add what you want inside like shrimp
let’s say with cucumber on the very end side of the rice and roll. Then you can
pour sesame seeds all over it, wait a little to stick well, and cut in small
pieces of sushi, and then add shredded crab on top too if you want to make it
crazy! ;)
You make up your own sushi just be creative!!!!
Hope you will do it! And if you need more instructions just
contact me!
Samia
Khoury Dietitian
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