Recipes

Party Sushi

Ingredients:

• japanese rice
• sushi vinegar (sushi su)
• nori sheets
• wasabe (powder or in tube)
• soya sauce

• sliced pickled ginger

• tuna
• salmon (to be salted for 2 hours)
• sea bass or other salt water fish
• cocktail shrimp
• salmon roe
• avocado
• cucumber
• daikon radish (bier-rettich)
• shiso (perilla) – look in an asian supermarket and ask for “Tia To”

• fresh coriander

• sake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perilla

Directions:

• Salt the salmon for two hours
• Prepare the sushi rice
  • wash 1/2 kg rice
  • cook with ~ 800 ml water - no salt (use a rice cooker if you have one)
  • let the rice rest 15” with a tea towel under the lid
  • spread out the rice and fold in sushi vinegar while cooling with a fan

NB: Most recipes explain how to prepare the sushi vinegar, but you can buy the sushi vinegar already prepared

• Prepare the wasabe 1:1 with water
• Slice the sushi fillings (check the web for slicing the fish)
• Grate the daikon into thin slivers
• Heat the sake by placing a bottle in a pan of boiling water
• Slice the nori into large hand-sized rectangles
• Everyone makes their own hand-rolls with their favourite ingredients

http://japanesefood.about.com/od/sushiforbeginner/r/sushirice.htm http://www.sushilinks.com/sushi-recipes/how-to-buy-fish/index.html http://www.imakesushi.com/howto/hand-roll.html

2008-01-05