Let's Make Sushi

Executive Summary About How To Make Sushi By Maggie Tan

Sushi is much much more than raw fish. I have been a victim to my addiction for sushi and had paid silly prices in sushi bars and restaurants. These are 5 Steps to the Perfect Sushi:

1) Sushi Rice
This is the essentially the heart of sushi, so if you get this right, you are 80% to making the perfect sushi! It is therefore not surprising that Sushi Experts place so much emphasis on how to prepare Sushi Rice.
Unlike normal long grains, sushi rice grains are a lot starchier. Use a damp clean cloth to cover the bowl to prevent the sushi rice from losing moisture.
*Important* Never store sushi rice in the fridge as the sushi rice will lose its moisture and taste exactly like the hard and gunny sushi that you get from supermarkets or even some sushi restaurants and bars

2) Nori
Very often, we think of nori as just the seaweed sheet for rolling sushi. However, nori plays a very important role in delivering the flavor and aroma of sushi.
Toasted nori are also more aromatic.
Over handling of the nori is a mistake that many sushi amateurs made.

3) Rolling the Roll
A pretty sushi looking sushi will whet a person's appetite even before he/she bite into the sushi. Hence, care must be taken in rolling the sushi.
Rolling the sushi roll is actually not difficult. The key to this is not to overstuff the sushi with rice and ingredients. A thin layer of sushi rice that covers the surface of the nori is sufficient.

4) Cutting the Roll
What you need is a sharpen knife so you can avoid excessive sawing motion and more critically, you need a slightly wet knife so that it will run smoothly through the roll. The knife needs to be lightly wet for every single cut.

5) Garnish & Decorations
When it comes to packaging, Japanese is King. Just use small vegetable cutters to cut out flower from carrots and cucumbers. To give it more colours, you can use red, green or yellow capsicums as well. Even just strips of these colourful vegetables will spice up your platter tremendously.

 Sushi is a very neat dish, so don't scatter your garnishing all over, but place them neatly along side the sushi. So Good Luck with your own SUSHI ^_^