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Gunkanmaki Sushi Recipes

Gunkanmaki sushi is a breakthrough.
If cook does not have this method,
It is difficult to make sushi with soft food.

Gunkanmaki sushi is wrapped with nori-seaweed ( dried seaweed ). Nori-seaweed that has an important role.
Sushi chef can hold a soft food with seaweed.
By that, we make a lot of sushi ingredients.
Type of cuisine sushi has increased dramatically.

Gunkanmaki sushi of Ikura is the most popular.
Ikura is salmon eggs.

Here's how to make Gunkanmaki sushi.

How to Make Gunkanmaki-Sushi Cuisine ( Sushi Recipes )

prepare the ingredients and tools

Step 1 How to Make Sushi Rice
Step 2 How to Make Gunkanmaki-Sushi

Step 1 How to Make Sushi Rice

About 3-5 servings

	Ingredients	1 cup = 237ml	1 cup = 250ml	1 cup = 284ml
a	Rice (Japonica rice)	2 cups	2 cups	2 cups
b	Water (Soft water)	2 cups	2 cups	2 cups
c	Rice inegar	50ml =3tbsp+1tsp	50ml =3tbsp+1tsp	60ml =4tbsp
c	Sugar	15g =1tbsp	15g =1tbsp	18g
c	Salt	7-8g =1-2tsp	7-8g =1-2tsp	9g =2tsp

1 cup=237ml (United States of America)
1 cup=250ml (Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
1 cup=284ml (United Kingdom)

Advice to Make Sushi Rice

Spend japonica rice. Indica rice is not suitable for sushi rice.
Spend your old rice that has been harvested in the previous year.But, you should not use the rice too old.
Use soft water for cooking sushi. Hard water is not suitable. Hard mineral water is not suitable.
Use the rice vinegar.

	Tools for Making Sushi Rice	Sushi Tools Photos
a	Pan with lid/Rice cooker
b	Japanese bowl/Handai/Large bowl
c	Glass bowl/Stainless steel bowl
d	Rice-paddle(Shamoji)/Rice Spatula

We can cook delicious rice with the pan.
However, it is necessary to have cooking techniques.
If you do not like cooking, Please use the rice cooker.

Good heavy lid of the pan.
Better to use a pan with a lid made of glass.
Because, you can check in the pot.

If, when you cook rice in small amounts,
You can cook rice using a pot.
If, when you cook rice in large quantities,
You must use a rice cooker.

Sushi Rice Recipe

About 3-5 servings

	Photos	Step-by-Step Recipe For Sushi Rice
1		Put the rice vinegar salt, and sugar in a bowl. Mix it well, Melt.
2		Put the rice in a large bowl, pour the water. Stir with your fingers. Then, discard the turbid water.
3		Repeat this process three times.
4		Put the washed rice in the pot or rice cooker, Pour water as recipes. If you cook rice in a rice cooker, Read the instruction manual, you will obey it. If you cook rice in a pot, Put the same amount of rice and water in a pot And you must use a pot with a lid.
5		If you cook rice in a rice cooker, Please turn on the power to start cooking. If you cook rice in a pot, After I put the rice and water into the pot as recipes, Let boil in the heat. (Please control the condition of fire) When there is no hot water in the pot, Turn off the heat. (Note the change of the sound coming from inside the pot) After the rice is cooked, Steaming for 10 minutes without removing the lid.
6		Put the rice in a Handai ( Wooden bowl for sushi ). Take care not to burn.
7		Heap up the rice in Handai.
8		Pour sushi vinegar ( = c ) into the rice evenly.
9		Mix the rice and vinegar. (Take care not to crush the grains of rice)
10		Mix the vinegar and rice while fanning in the fan.(Take care not to crush the grains of rice)
11		Cover the Handai using a damp cloth.

Details of How to Make the Sushi Rice

Make Sushi Vinegar Seasoning

Before cooking the rice, keep making the sushi vinegar.
Put the rice vinegar, sugar and salt into the bowl.
Blend it. Melt the them.
It is a complete fully melted.

Wash Rice

Put the rice into balls.
Pour water into the bowl. Then, wash the rice.
You discard the murky water. (Do not throw away the rice)
While pouring the water, you wash the rice.
Before the water in the bowl is overflowing, please turn off the water.
Throw away all the murky water. (Do not throw away the rice)
Repeated about 3-4 times the work of washing the rice.
When the water in the bowl became clear,
This task is complete.

Advice to Wash Rice

Do not use hot water and detergent.
It is not necessary to water absorption in rice in advance.
If the normal rice dishes,
The chef makes the water absorption of rice.

Cook Rice

Put the washed rice to the pot.
Pour water in the pot.
Put the water into the pot. (The same amount of rice and water.)
Put a lid on the pot.
Bring to a boil over high heat.
After boiling, reduce heat. (Adjust the appropriate firepower)
When there is no hot water in the pan,
You will notice a change in the sound you hear from the pot.
Stop the heat at that point.
After that, Steam the rice in the residual heat for about 10 minutes.
After steaming rice is delicious.

Advice When Cooking Rice

Do not remove the lid of the pan during heating.
But, if there is a special need to remove the lid,
Take off the lid of the pot.
If you are using a rice cooker,
Follow the instructions of each manufacturer's instructions.
If there is a scale for sushi rice cooker, and obey it.

Make Sushi Rice

Put the hot rice into handai or bowl.
Sprinkle evenly with vinegar to sushi rice in Handai.
Blends vinegar into steaming-hot, freshly cooked rice, using a paddle. It takes skill to mix the vinegar into the rice without crushing the individual grains.
( Mix the vinegar and sushi rice with a wooden spoon.
In this case, you should not crush the rice grains.)

Let the rice cool down with fanning in the fan
Let evaporate excess moisture.
You may also use the electric fans.
After the sushi rice is finished, cover the Handai damp clean cloth.

If you do not have Handai,
You can also use a large stainless steel bowl.

Step 2 How to Make Gunkanmaki-Sushi Cuisine

About 3 servings

	Ingredients	About 3 Servings (30 Sushi )
a	Salmon eggs / Ikura	About 360g
b	Sushi rice	About 630g
c	Nori-seaweed (Dried seaweed)	15 sheets
d	Sliced cucumber	30 pieces

Notes on Salmon Eggs

Choose the fresh salmon roe.
Quality decreases when heat roe.
Do not soak in water salmon roe.
Sushi chef will soak the eggs of salmon in salt water.
Soft roe is high quality. However, hard roe is lower.

How to Identify Fake Salmon Roe and Salmon Roe Natural

Real salmon roe is white discoloration by heating.
If You are immersed in hot tea natural salmon roe,
You will notice that the roe is discolored to white.

	Tools for Making Gunkanmaki Sushi	Photos
a	Japanese bowl/Handai//Large bowl If you do not have a Handai, you may use the bowl.
b	Chopping board
c	Cooking Scissors

You always clean the tools of sushi.
Please cherish your tools.
It is a basic cooking.

Gunkanmaki-Sushi Recipe

About 3-5 servings

	Photos	Recipe For Gunkanmaki Sushi
1		Cut a length of about 20 cm to 4 cm width of the nori-seaweed with scissors.
2		Make balls about the size of a ping-pong ball of sushi on a cutting board. Make it formed into an oval.
3		Make sushi rice wrapped in seaweed.
4		Across the grain of rice grains on both ends of the Nori-seaweed ( Dried seaweed ). Adhere to both ends of the Nori-seaweed with a grain of rice grains. Connect the ends of the Dried seaweed. Put pressure on
5		Push the rice sushi with your fingers. (Please make a dent in the sushi rice)
6		Put the salmon roe on sushi rice with a spoon.
7		Put the cucumber on top of the gunkan-maki sushi.

Advice when making sushi

You should roll the Nori seaweed just before eating.
Do not use too hot sushi rice.