Traditional Japanese cuisine - sushi - has firmly won our hearts. Sushi is made with rice and a variety of fillings including vegetables, fish and seafood. The "nishiki" variety is used for making sushi from rice. If you don't find it, you can replace it with "basmati". The fish is mainly seafood: tuna, salmon, sea bass. From seafood - shrimp, crab, octopus.
It is necessary
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- Rice sauce:
- 1 cup rice vinegar
- 6 tablespoons of sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons of salt
- 900 gr. rice nishiki
- 1 liter of water
- 300 gr. raw or smoked salmon fillet
- 1 long cucumber
- 1 avocado
- 1 makisu mat
- nori
- pickled ginger
- wasabi
- soy sauce
Instructions
Step 1
Cooking a dressing for rice.
Add sugar and salt to the vinegar.
Step 2
We put the vinegar on a small fire and stir continuously until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved. Do not boil the vinegar, just warm it up.
Step 3
Rinse the rice with cold water several times (5-6 times) until the water is completely transparent.
Step 4
Pour all the water from the rice through a sieve.
Step 5
Pour rice with water, put on high heat until boiling, about 10 minutes.
Step 6
Then close the pan with a lid, reduce heat to low and cook for another 10 minutes.
Step 7
Turn off the heat and leave the rice under the lid for another 15 minutes.
Step 8
Pour the rice into another container and gradually pour in the vinegar dressing, stirring.
Step 9
We put the rice to cool to room temperature.
Step 10
Cut the cucumber into strips.
Step 11
Divide the avocado into quarters, remove the pit, peel.
Step 12
Cut the prepared avocado into strips like a cucumber.
Step 13
Blot the salmon fillet with a paper towel.
Step 14
With a sharp long knife, cut off the fillet from above with a layer no more than 0.3-0.4 cm thick.
Step 15
We cut all the fillets into such layers. We cut the layers into strips.
Step 16
Laying it out on the mat? nori leaf.
Step 17
Wet hands with cold water.
Step 18
We take part of the rice with our hands and spread it over the entire surface of the nori with a thickness of 1-1.5 cm.
Step 19
From the long edge of the nori rectangle, leave 1 cm without rice.
Step 20
Put avocado, cucumber, fish on the rice.
21
Use a mat to roll the stuffed nori into a roll.
The remaining strip without rice, as it were, glues the roll.
22
We cut the sushi with a sharp knife, first cutting the roll into two even parts, then folding them side by side, cut them into 4 more parts.
23
Serve sushi with wasabi paste, soy sauce and pickled ginger.
