Recipe: Sushi

My mom rarely cooked in the past.

And this, is one of the few kinds of that she prepared when I was young. We have this sushi maker that made it so easy to make sushis. Now, Daiso sells various types of sushi makers, and Daiso is pretty much everywhere now, which makes sushi making really easy now!

There's a secret ingredient in the sushi we make at home. Well, I say it's secret because... No one I know actually heard of it till I mention it to them. And the so called secret ingredient is Sakura denbu. Its sweet yet salty at the same time, and all of us love it. The pink from this ingredient actually comes from food colouring. This is so that it resembles Sakura Cherry Blossoms (hence the name too!). You can buy it (which I do), or you can make it on your own. Just Bento has a recipe for it with photos and it looks really easy to make! 

That being said, here's the recipe! (Recipe makes about 8 rolls)

INGREDIENTS

Sushi Rice
3 cups Japanese short grain rice
3 3/4 cups water

Sushi rice seasoning
1/3 cup rice vinegar
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt

Sushi ingredients
Crabsticks
Cucumber, sliced thinly
Seaweed
Sakura denbu (fish floss)
Kanpyo (preserved vegetables)
1 Egg, beaten and lightly seasoned with 1/2 tsp soy sauce

METHOD

1. Cook the 3 cups of rice with 3 3/4 cups of water.
2. Fry the egg in the wok into a thin omelette, then slice it when cooled.
2. Heat the sushi rice seasoning over the fire till the sugar and salt has dissolved.
3. Once rice is cooked, stir in the sushi rice seasoning (does not have to be cooled; I usually do this step after the rice is cooked) and mix well.
4. Make the sushi roll using the traditional bamboo mat, or using a sushi maker. Daiso sells it at $2. It makes sushi a lot easier to make.
5. If using a sushi maker, just line the seaweed in the maker, then put in a layer of rice.
6. Put the other sushi ingredients (crabstick, cucumber, egg, kanpyo), then sprinkle the sakura denbu on the ingredients.
7. Cover with rice and wrap the sushi up.
8. Slice it according to the size you want, or eat it as a roll.