sushi rice
How to Make Sushi Rice
One of the most famous Japanese dishes, sushi is equally popular in places outside Japan. Here is an easy recipe for making this exotic dish.
- 3 cups of Japanese rice
- 1/3 cups of rice vinegar
- 3 and 1/4 cups of water
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- Put rice in a bowl and run cool water over it to wash it.
- Wash the rice and drain the water.
- Repeat this procedure for 2-3 times until the water appears clear.
- Drain rice and keep for 20-30 minutes.
- If you are cooking in a rice cooker, then put the rice and measured water in it, and cook for 20 minutes.
- Do not open the lid immediately after the prescribed time. Let it catch steam for 10-15 minutes.
- Mix rice vinegar, salt, and sugar in a sauce pan.
- Heat the mixture till the sugar gets dissolved completely. Set the mixture to cool completely.
- Now open the cooker and put the rice in a large bowl. Spread the vinegar mixture over the rice and fold it. Adding vinegar will help in making the rice taste like authentic sushi rice.
- 1/2 cup of rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of rice wine
- 2 tablespoons of sweet rice wine
- A single small square of kelp (kombu)
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- Slightly wash the kelp in cold water before using it.
- Put the rice vinegar in a pan and place the kelp in it.
- Heat the vinegar with kelp in it for about a minute.
- Let the vinegar simmer so as to allow the extract of the kelp mix with the vinegar.
- Now take the kelp out of the vinegar. Add rice wine, sweet rice wine, and salt to the vinegar. Heat this for 5-7 minutes.
- Your rice seasoning/vinegar is ready. You need to cool this mixture at room or refrigerator temperature.
- You can use this seasoning or vinegar instead of the rice vinegar mentioned in the aforementioned recipe.