To make sushi rolls at home is fun, delicious and healthy because you can put in them only what you think is right. The main thing here is to buy the sushi rice and cook it properly.
Ingredients (6 sheets nori):
• 1 Cup sushi rice,
• A little more than 1 Cup of water,
• 4 tbsp rice vinegar (you can at least replace with white wine vinegar),
• 3 tbsp sweetener (I have Jerusalem artichoke syrup),
• 1 tsp. salt,
• 0.5 sheet nori (optional).
How to do:
1. Thoroughly rinse the rice until until the water is clear. The water should be at room temperature, the capacity for washing is quite large. Wash need hands, raking the palm of the water from bottom to top. Not in a colander under the tap. Why so much detail was written in this post. Put the rice in a colander to dry while you boil water.
2. Pour water in a thick-walled bowl with a lid (ideally, if it is transparent, so you can see it boiled off the water or not). Bring water to a boil and cover the rice, put the nori. Bring water with rice to a boil, take out the nori, turn down the heat to low (if you have an electric stove, a better move pan to another burner preheated to low) and cook for 10-15 minutes, until the rice absorbs all the water. Remove from heat and let stand 15 minutes. Cover during cooking, do not open.
3. While preparing the rice, make the filling. Mix the vinegar, salt and sweetener. If you use sugar, then it needs to dissolve completely, as, indeed, and salt. You can heat the dressing on low heat, stirring constantly and without leading up to boiling, to speed up the process.
4. After the rice has rested, you need to put it in a large bowl. Accurately and quickly divide the rice spatula to from a coma, he has become a more or less crumbly. Spread the filling over rice. Try to do it evenly. Can slightly povoroshit rice shovel, but not to mix, and then get a sticky mess.
5. Cover the rice with a towel and allow to cool slightly, so that it can be taken by hand. Now he’s ready for sushi/rolls. You need to use it immediately, then it will become too dry and hard.
Life hacks on twisting rolls:
1. Nori should be placed shiny side down.
2. For laying out rice on nori, you need to prepare tezu to wet hands. Pour into a bowl with a little water and 2 tbsp of rice vinegar. Rice spread on nori it hands dipped in this mixture.
3. To roll had the form of a snail, and looked correctly, the figure you need to lay out stepping back from the edge about 2 cm, and fill to the middle of the sheet. That is, the side which to you should be filled with rice from the edge and at a distance of 2 cm, and then the rice is laid out to the middle of the sheet.
4. To nori stuck to each other, and roll together, edge of the sheet lubricate tezu.
5. Roll to cut you need a very sharp knife dipped in tezu.