Sushi and rolls are pretty easy to make at home. You need to buy the necessary ingredients, a bamboo mat, wooden sticks and carefully read the recipe. After an hour, you can try a Japanese dish.
Making rolls - type of land, preparing everything you need
Many supermarkets have all the items you need to create a Japanese-Chinese dish on one shelf. In addition to a small mat, sticks, there is also soy sauce, rice water. If you can't buy it, then you can do without this ingredient.
What you need to purchase and in what quantities to measure in order to prepare the rolls:
- 1 glass of round grain rice;
- 5 sheets of nori;
- 200 g of slightly salted red fish;
- 4 tablespoons of rice vinegar;
- 2 fresh medium-sized cucumbers;
- 150 g cream cheese.
Additionally:
- wasabi;
- soy sauce;
- pickled ginger.
If possible, purchase special sushi rice. If not, then any round-grain will do (steamed, long will not work), it has good stickiness.
Step by step cooking process
Put 1200 ml of water in a saucepan over gas. When it boils, add the washed rice. Boil it under a closed lid over minimum heat for 16 minutes. Turn off the gas and let the rice sit for 20 minutes.
At this time, prepare the rest of the ingredients. Remove the skin from the cucumbers and cut them into long thin strips, with a section of approximately 0.5 x 0.5 cm.
Separate the fish fillet from the skin, chop it in almost the same way as the cucumbers, but let the slices become 1x1 cm in size. The cheese is cut in the same way as the fish.
Add rice water to lukewarm rice. As a last resort, you can make rolls without it. Pour water into a separate bowl. In it, you will need to moisten your hands so that the rice does not stick to them.
Place plastic wrap on a bamboo mat. On top of it is a sheet of algae, shiny side down. If not all packaging is used, then after preparing the rolls, put it in a bag and close it well. In this form, the nori sheets will lie until the next time and will not dry out.
Soak your hands in water, take the rice and spread it on the nori in a layer of 1 centimeter. Press down with your hands. Put the filling on the edge near you - fish, cucumber, cheese. Take the edge of the mat and roll it tightly into a roll.
Using a very sharp knife, cut the roll into portions.
You can pour sesame seeds on the mat, and put rice on them. Then - nori, on these sheets - the filling. Wrap in exactly the same way. Place these 2 types of rolls on a platter, place a bowl of soy sauce in the center, add ginger and some wasabi.
You can make Philadelphia sushi at home. For this, an avocado is added to the filling, and the fish is cut into thin slices and placed on a mat. On it - rice, and then - nori and filling.
