SUSHI

200 g round grain rice
rice vinegar
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
Salt and pepper
Nori (seaweed) sheets

Cook the rice according to instructions until al dente and leave after boiling for about 10 minutes covered stand.

Mix rice vinegar, sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Let rice cool slightly and stir the vinegar mixture through. Use a fan to blow away warm air of the rice. Always use some plastic foil to protect your sushi rolling mat. Use water and vinegar to moisten your hands so the rice will not stick on your hands. Cut ingredients and you can start making sushi.

MAKI SUSHI is the general term for rolled sushi consisting of nori, rice, and a center filling:
Moisten hands with vinegar and water and make nori sheets with different fillings:

- cucumber, spring onion, carrot / red ginger, tuna, wasabi

- Spring onion, cucumber , tuna, avocado, wasabi, mayonnaise

- Cucumber, spring onion, carrot, smoked salmon, wasabi

- carrot, lettuce, avocado, spring onion, salmon, wasabi

- omelette, cucumber, salmon, mayonnaise

SAKAMAKI SUSHI is an inside out rolled sushi

Coat the whole sheet of nori with rice. Then sprinkle some roasted sesameseed or crumbled eggyolk over the rice. Cover the top with plastic, its helpful in keeping the rice from sticking all over the rolling mat.

Flip the nori and rice over. Add your desired ingredients (see above). Roll the sushi and cut in pieces.

NIGIRI SUSHI: is hand-pressed sushi. It's a small oval of pressed rice with a topping firmly placed on top. Usual toppings are thin slices of fish, omelet, or stalky vegetables. You can also use a mold. But by hand is also easy. Take a small amount of rice and form it into a rounded-off oval. Add some wasabi across the rice and place the fish on top of the rice.Squeeze a couple of times so the fish is firmly attached to the rice.Cut a small strip of nori and wrap it around the whole finished nigiri to hold it together.

TAMAGO YAKI: Is omelette sushi: Make 6 omelettes of 6 eggs, use for red colour chili-tomato ketchup , for brown: Japanese soy sauce, or plain yellow salt and pepper.

Make of 2 omelettes 1 roll. First roll one and then roll the other. So you have a big roll.

Cut in pieces, wrap a small nori strip to hold the roll together and garnish with thin strips of ginger or salmon.

Serve the sushi with wasabi soy sauce , pickled ginger and extra wasabi… and Itadakimasu thats Japanese for good apetite!!