Lots of people love sushi, but think it can only be procured outside the home. Here's a simple guide to making sushi in your kitchen!
Ingredients: Fish, shellfish or other topping; Sushi rice; Unsalted dried seaweed (layer sheets prepared for making sushi); Rice wine vinegar; Sugar; Salt and Optional condiments: Wasabi, Pickled ginger, Soy sauce.
Step 1: Select 2 types of veggies (cucumbers and carrots) and a fish (for instance artificial cooked crab).
Step 2: Place about 2 cups of sushi rice in a rice cooker and then rinse the rice repeatedly until the rice water is not cloudy.
Step 3: Wash the veggies and place them on a cutting board and cut the carrots in half long wise and then cut them into long skinny strips.
Step 4: Cut the crab into little strips and make sure they are pretty even in length
Step 5: Check on your rice.
Step 6: Take a bowl and pour in about two tablespoons of rice wine vinegar.
Step 7. Pour the mixture onto the rice and mix thoroughly by "slicing" the rice
Step 8. Place the seaweed layer on a bamboo mat and then spread rice onto the seaweed
Step 9: Roll the bamboo into a long roll by first folding the bottom third in then roll it up.
Final step: Cut down the middle of the roll, take each half and place them parallel to each other.
