To make sushi at home is easy, once you know,
it's easy.
First of all, you have to have Japanese short
grain rice to make sushi, you can't substitute
anything else, so you must have it.
There's a variety of the Japanese short grain
rice, most of them is very good, but the only
things I don't like Nishiki.
Nishiki is most easy to get in supermarket,
in American supermarket, but that's the rice
I don't really like it.
So, you can get any other brand like Karachi,
Tamekimi, or Actacomachi, all those things
are fine but not Nishiki, I don't recommend.
And some stores sell like 5 years old, 6 years
old, it's fine it just gets drier so you have
to make sure it's this new crop or not, if
it's a new crop, more moisture is inside so
you don't need much water to cook with it.
But if its older rice then you need more water
to cook it, so you soak in the water, make
sure that the rice is taking all the moisture
inside before you cook it and then you'll
be fine.
Also, season the rice for the sushi rice you
have to have the rice vinegar, a little bit
of sugar and salt to season the sushi vinegar.
Then you mix it together, then you need to
have seaweed, which is sushi nori and for
the seaweed, don't be cheap on the seaweed,
if you get cheaper seaweed, it tends to be
thick and chewy, so you don't want have chewy
sushi when you bite into it, you have to [grunts]
to bite into it, that's not what you are looking
for.
Sushi seaweed is supposed to be crunchy so
make sure that you get the best quality sushi
nori.
For the seaweed, of course, freshest seaweed
is the best and once you use it and you have
left overs, you seal it with masking tape
then put it in the refrigerator and then you
keep it nice and fresh.
Then you should have all the ingredients,
your favorite ingredients, tuna, salmon, eel,
yellowtail, whatever you like.
And also the vegetables, don't forget the
vegetables, there's several, sushi is also
the traditional style, sushi is not about
raw fish, sushi is about the seasoned rice.
The ingredients, you can get whatever you
like, you don't have to make like a sushi
restaurant, if you can find fluke in the local
store, you just get the fluke, if you get
the tuna at local store, you get the tuna
and then all other vegetables you can mix
and match.
Asparagus, you can use, cucumber you can get
anywhere, mushrooms or any kind of vegetable
and then raw fish.
And make sure the raw fish is sushi quality
raw fish and you find, so those all the ingredients
you need to have to make really good delicious
sushi at home.
