Sushi
A Japanese dinner made with seafood. Ready in about 34 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 34 minPrep (about)
- 34 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 1 ¼ cups sushi rice
Fresh & other
- ⅓ cup + 1 tbsp rice wine
- 2 tbsp superfine sugar Shopping tip: Superfine sugar (UK: caster). Regular sugar works.
- 1 tbsp rice wine
- 1 cucumber
Sauces & oils
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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TO MAKE SUSHI ROLLS: Pat out rice.
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Lay a nori sheet on your mat, shiny-side down.
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Dip your hands in the vinegared water.
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Pat handfuls of rice over the top in a ½ inch thick layer, leaving your furthest edge from you clear.
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Spread over some Japanese mayonnaise.
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Use spoon to spread out thin layer of mayonnaise down your middle of the rice.
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Add the filling.
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Roll it up.
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Lift your edge of your mat over your rice, applying little pressure to keep everything in tight roll.
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Stick down the sides like a stamp.
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Wait until you get to your edge without any rice.
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Brush using a little water and continue to roll in a tight roll.
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Wrap in cling film.
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Remove the mat.
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Roll in cling film before grown-up cuts the sushi in thick slices.
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Unravel the cling film.
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TO MAKE PRESSED SUSHI: Layer over smoked salmon.
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Line a loaf tin with cling film.
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Place thin layer of smoked salmon inside over the top of the cling film.
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Cover with rice and press down.
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Press around 1 ¼ inches of rice over the fish.
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Fold your cling film over plus press down as much you can, using another if you have one.
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Tip it out like a sandcastle.
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Turn block of sushi on a chopping board.
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Get a grown-up to cut in fingers.
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Remove the cling film.
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TO MAKE SUSHI BALLS: Choose your topping.
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Get a small square of cling film.
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Place topping, like half a prawn or a little piece of smoked salmon, on it.
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Use damp hands.
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Roll walnut-sized balls of rice.
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Place on the topping.
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Make into tight balls.
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Bring your corners of your cling film together and tighten in balls by twisting it up, unwrap.
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Serve.
On the side: Cucumber salad
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Thinly slice the cucumbers.
- Toss with the rice vinegar and a pinch of salt. Let it sit a few minutes.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.