How to make sushi

Often, having a great desire to make sushi, we do not undertake this business, believing that it is too difficult for us. In fact, to prepare sushi is much easier than you might at first appear. The most important thing - to find all the right ingredients and know a few secrets and subtleties of cooking this dish.

The first secret - the choice of rice. For land suitable only Japanese rice, in an extreme case, it can be replaced Round Krasnodar. In addition, you will need soy sauce, rice vinegar, nori, pickled ginger gari and wasabi Japanese horseradish (take powder, then to dilute it with water 1: 1).

Before cooking always rinse rice until water clarity. On one part of rice - half of the water, bring it to a boil, cover and cook rice about 22-23 minutes (do not stir!).. If after this time the rice is still not ready, you need to add a little boiling water.

To figure turned out especially tasty and fragrant, it is necessary to make a special sushi vinegar. Here is the calculation for the 4 cups of dry rice: Couple in a bowl 6 tablespoons. l. rice vinegar, 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice, 1 hr. l. salt and Article 7. l. sugar, heat the mixture, all of the ingredients have melted. Then pour the mixture into your rice and stir with a wooden stick, when it cools down, proceed to sushi.

hand molded sushi. that the rice does not stick to hands, periodically moisten them with acetic water. Generally, the method of molding the land depends on the species.

Thus, nigiri - a bar of rice, fish or coated on top of some other ingredient. For their modeling scoop some rice, squeeze it in your hand, form the bar, promazhte fish (other ingredient) wasabi, put it on rice, a good push, flip land filling up, press it again.

To make temaki sushi need to dazzle rice bun and put on it cut thin slices stuffing.

To make Gunkan sushi, blind bun, wrap it in the elevator, you should have a tube, brush with wasabi rice, fill the tube filled to the top. There Gunkan sushi need quickly, so that the liquid from the filling is not soaked rice.

Doing sushi not overdo wasabi, otherwise it will muffle the taste of other ingredients.

To facilitate the process of preparing sushi, you can use special molds, simply fill them with stuffing and rice, turn - and sushi ready