Recipe #124 Sushi

Ingredients:

- one package of Nori Leaves

- 2 cups of sushi rice*

- 1/4 cup of Sushi seasoning

- Sushi fillings (such as carrots, cucumber, avocado, wasabi, mushrooms)
In this recipe I added Umeboshi (Japanese picked plum)
- bamboo mat to roll the sushi

* 1 cup of boiled sushi rice gives around 3 sushi rolls. So in this recipe i'm making 6 sushi rolls which is enough for 3 hungry people or 4 average hungry people ;)

Start off by boiling the rice: boil the rice in salted water (I measured 2 cups of rice to 2.50 cups of water; you don't want your sushi rice to be a paste).
Get the water to a boil, add the rice and allow this to boil for a few minutes. Turn off the heat so the rice won't burn and put a lid on it.
When the rice is cooked add the seasoning. I bought this ready made or you can do it at home (use ½ cup of rice vinegar, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 teaspoons of salt. Use only rice vinegar!).
Stir this seasoning into the rice and allow it to cool off a bit (enough to handle with your hands).

Now take your bamboo mat, add a layer of celophane wrap on top and then um nori leaf (shiny side facing down). With your hands or with a spoon spread rice on the nori leaf but leave the top 1/5 of the nori empty (to finish the roll).
now add your filling in the lower part of the nori square. Then carefully roll over the bamboo mat and press down. This requires skill (which I don't have yet! but you can find a lot of Youtubers showing you how to roll the perfect sushi).

At the end use the celophane to wrap the sushi roll and keep the rice together at each end. Place it in the fridge for 30min or some hours (you can prepare this in advance for a dinner party).
Before serving unwrap the sushi roll from the celophane and using a REALLY sharp knife cut each roll into two; then each half into two; and then each quarter into two. Each roll should give you 8 pieces of sushi.
Serve chilled with Soy Sauce to dip it in.