Selfmade Sushi

Do it yourself:

To anyone who loves Sushi as much as I do but doesn’t wanna spend lots and lots of bucks for it neither wants to lose any of the quality selfmade Sushi might be an idea. It is definitely cheaper, you can get a lot more out of it plus you can give your creativity free rein. All the ingrediencies you need you can find in any grocery store: 

Shopping List (5 Portions):

• Fresh Salmon (250-300g)
• Sushi-Rice (300g)
• Seaweed Sheets
• 4*Tbsp Rice Vinegar
• 1*Tsp Sugar
• 1*Tsp Salt
• 1 Avocado
• 1/2 Cucumber
• Spring Onion
• Cream Cheese
• Cress  

Addionally you can put in your Maki Roll whatever you like or want to try.

*Tbsp = Tablespoon

*Tsp = Teaspoon

LETS START:

Step 1:

First of all, you wanna start cooking the rice, since that’s probably gonna claims the longest time. Take one cup of sushi rice (about 300g) and cook it in water (1 ½ cups) for about 20 minutes. Don’t forget to stir the rice to prevent it from sticking to the ground and getting burnt.

Step 2:

If you got fresh salmon, you probably have to separate it from the fish skin. To do so you wanna take a sharp knife and start cutting right below the skin so you lose as little fish as possible. 

Step 3:

In the meantime, you can start prepping your ingredients (cut into stripes, cubes) in order to put them into your Sushi. When the rice is done, put it into a wooden bowl (its gonna soak up some of the remaining water) and add your mixture of 4Tbsp of rice vinegar, 1Tsp of sugar and 1Tsp of salt to make sure it has the right sushi-flavour. After that put a dishtowel on top of the bowl and wait till the rice is cooled down.

 

 

 

 

 Step 4:

Getting to the “fun-building-the-sushi-part” you wanna put all the prepped ingredients in front of you. Further you take your bamboo mat (you might wanna wrap it into plastic wrap so the rice wont stick to it) and start putting either the rice or a seaweed sheet on it. (Which one you put first depends if you either want to do inside out technique or not.) 

Step 5:

Let’s say you wanna go with the inside out technique and put the rice on your map. The next step is to place the seaweed sheet on top of it. After that you can put all the ingredients you wanna have in your Maki on the first third of the sheet. Now you can start creating the roll by taking the bamboo mat and roll it up to the middle. While unwrapping the mat again you have to be careful that the rice is sticky enough to stay as a formed Sushi roll. In a final touch you roll the whole mat up again and press it gently together to make sure it tightly sticks together. 

 

Step 6:

The difficult part is done. All there’s to do now is to cut the roll into 6 to 8 pieces and decorate it with little pieces of salmon, spring onion, cress or whatever it is that’s on your mind. You should set your creativity free since there is no right or wrong way to do it, just have fun while preparing and eating.