Making sushi rice

Name: Making sushi rice
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Cook the rice following the method, opposite. For extra flavour, add a 5 cm/2 in square of konbu (dried kelp) to the pan of rice and water, removing before the water reaches boiling point.; In a measuring cup, mix 45 ml/3 tbsp Japanese rice vinegar (or white wine vinegar), 37.5 ml/7½ tsp sugar and 10 ml/2 tsp sea salt to the above amount of rice and stir well until dissolved.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

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Method

Su-meshi (vinegared rice) is the base for all kinds of sushi and it is essential to correctly cook the rice. As a guide, to make hoso-maki (thin nori-rolled sushi),