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Chirashi Sushi Recipes

Chirashi-sushi is vinegared rice topped with a variety of colorful ingredients.
Chirashi-sushi is a traditional Japanese home cooking.
Japanese mom make it to the festival and celebrations.
Recipe of sushi is present in every home.

There are many types of sushi ingredients.
Cook can change the ingredients to put in the sushi.
Therefore, many types of sushi are creative.

We will introduce how to make a popular seafood sushi.

How to Make Chirashi Sushi Cuisine (Sushi Recipes)

prepare the ingredients and tools

Step 1 How to Make Sushi Rice
Step 2 How to Cook Ingredients of Sushi
Step 3 How to Make Chirashi Sushi

Step 1 How to Make Sushi Rice

About 3-5 servings

Ingredients	1 cup = 237ml	1 cup = 250ml	1 cup = 284ml
Rice (Japonica rice)	2 cups	2 cups	2 cups
Water (Soft water)	2 cups	2 cups	2 cups
Rice inegar	50ml =3tbsp+1tsp	50ml =3tbsp+1tsp	60ml =4tbsp
Sugar	30g =2tbsp	30g =2tbsp	36g =2tbsp+1tsp
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 Cook Ingredients of Sushi

About 5-8 servings

	Ingredients	About 3-5 Servings (3-5 Sushi Rolls )
a	Egg / Tamago	3 eggs
b	Sugar / Sato	1 tbsp
c	Salt / Shio	1 g
d	Stock or Sake	3 tsp
e	Soybean oil / Daizu-Abura	1 tsp

	Tools for Making Kinshi Tamago	Photos
a	Chopping board / Manaita
b	Glass bowl / Stainless steel bowl
c	Large dish / Sara
d	Frying pan
e	Chopsticks / Saibashi
f	Ladle / Otama

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

Kinshi Tamago Recipe ( Shredded Omelet Recipe )

About 5-8 servings

	Photos	Step-by-Step Recipe For Kinshi Tamago
0		Prepare soup stock, eggs, sugar and salt.
1		Crack the three eggs and put the ball. Add the seasoning, mix well.
2		Heat the frying pan over medium heat. Put cooking oil in a frying pan. When the temperature of the frying pan is hot, turn down the heat.
3		Scoop the egg mixture with a ladle. Put the egg mixture into the frying pan. Broaden the range of egg mixture while tilting the pan.
4		Bake at low heat to dry. Take care not to burn.
5		After the surface is dry, lift it from the part of both ends with chopsticks, transfer to cutting board. Take care not to tear.
6		Rolled thin omelette. Then, cut thin with a knife.
7		Put a thin omelet to a plate. Kinshi omelet dish is completed.

Step 3 How to Make Chirashi Sushi Cuisine

About 5-8 servings

	Ingredients	About 5-8 Servings
a	Sushi rice / Sushi-Meshi	1000g
b	Salmon / Sake	120-150g
c	Shrimp / Ebi	5-8 shrimp
d	Octopus or Squid / Tako or Ika	120-150g
e	Salmon roe / Ikura	5-8 tbsp
f	Avocado	0.5~1
g	Soy sauce / Syou	6 tbsp
h	Sweet sake / Mirin	2 tbsp
i	Shredded omelet / Kinshi-Tamago	3 eggs

Information and Notes of Sushi

Use sushi ingredients fresh seafood.

How to Thaw Frozen Fish

Take thawed frozen fish in the refrigerator or in ice water.
Once thawed rapidly, fish cells are destroyed.
Then, the fish will lose the taste.

	Tools for Making Chirashi Sushi	Photos
a	Japanese bowl / Handai / Large bowl
b	Large dish / Sara
c	Chopsticks / Saibashi
d	Rice-paddie / Shamoji

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

About 5-8 servings

	Photos	How to Make Seafood Chirashi-Sushi
1		Mix soy sauce and mirin in a ratio of 3 to 1.
2		Cut tuna, octopus and shrimp to a size of your choice. Soak the tuna and salmon roe in soy sauce.
3		Serve the sushi rice in a platter or Handai. Arrange the shredded omelet and nori on top of the sushi rice.
4		Arrange the tuna and octopus on top of sushi rice.
5		Arrange the shrimp and avocado on top of sushi rice.
6		Sprinkle the salmon roe at the end. It is a complete chirashi sushi seafood.

Sushi is made during special days and celebrations in Japan.
Sushi recipe is different for each family.
If we topped with ingredients such as sashimi,
It will be gorgeous chirashi sushi.