How to Make a Sushi Roll
Sushi rolls used to be expensive delicacies for fancy parties only. Now they're for everything from weddings to midnight snacks. Here is a fun way to make the little Japanese sushi rolls everyone loves!
- Several sheets of Yaki Nori (dried seaweed)
- A bag of short grain sushi rice
- Vegetables such as cucumber or carrot - feel free to get creative and use new types of vegetables
- Fish of some sort, such as tuna, salmon; or, if preferred, you can use steak or chicken
- Mirin (rice wine)
- Rice vinegar
- Sesame seeds (for inside out sushi)
STEP 1
Cook your rice in your rice cooker. Most packages of nori have instructions for seasoning.
STEP 2
Chop and prepare your vegetables and fish.
STEP 3
Put the nori on the bamboo mat shiny side down.
STEP 4
Remove the rice from the rice cooker and put it into a bowl.
STEP 5
Add seasoned rice vinegar to moisten the rice (but not too wet).
STEP 6
Wet your hands, then spread the rice on the nori leaving about an inch of nori without rice at the top.
STEP 7
With your thumb make a line in the middle of rice.
STEP 8
Fill in the gap with your chosen ingredients.
STEP 9
Roll the sushi with the bamboo mat.
STEP 10
Wet your knife then cut the roll into the desired size.
STEP 11
Enjoy!
