Nigiri-Sushi Recipe

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Salmon nigiri-sushi

Nigiri-Sushi Recipes

There are several hundred ingredients of nigiri-sushi.
People like different foods.
In recent years, the salmon nigiri sushi is the most popular food in the world.
We will introduce how to make salmon nigiri-sushi.

How to Make Nigiri-Sushi Cuisine (Sushi Recipes)

prepare the ingredients and tools

Step 1 How to Make Sushi Rice
Step 2 How to Cook Sushi Ingredients
Step 3 How to Make Nigiri-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 rRce

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 Sushi Ingredients

About 3 servings

	Ingredients	About 3 Servings (30 sushi )
a	Salmon	About 360g
b	Sushi rice	About 630g
c	Wasabi	A little

Notes on Salmon

Raw salmon has a risk of the parasite.
If, when you eat raw salmon,
Please save the raw salmon at low temperature in the freezer for 24 hours. That way, you will be able to kill the parasite.

How to Thaw Frozen Salmon

Please unzip the frozen salmon in the refrigerator and slowly.
Alternatively, please unzip the raw salmon in ice water.
If you unzip rapidly, the cells of the salmon would be destroyed. And, the taste of salmon will be lost.

Note Wasabi ( Japanese House Radish )

If, when you grate raw wasabi,
You should grated wasabi just before to make sushi.
Grated wasabi flavor will decrease over time.

How to Make Hand-Vinegar

Put 20ml of water and 100ml of rice vinegar in a small bowl.
Please mix it.

	Tools for Making Nigiri Sushi	Photos
a	Japanese bowl/Handai/Large bowl
b	Glass bowl/Stainless steel bowl
c	Chopping board

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

Salmon Sushi Ingredients Recipe

	Photos	Step-by-Step Recipe For Salmon
1		Clean the slime and salt salmon skin with a brush. You clean the salmon to wash.
2		Cut off the head of the salmon. And, please also cut fin of salmon.
3		Put on the right side the head of the salmon. Put the front side of salmon belly. Please cut toward the tail on the portion of the spine with a knife. Then, please cut the under the spine towards the tail. As a result, the salmon would be sliced into three pieces.
4		Remove the bones of the back side.
5		Cut out the part of the small bones of the belly.
6		Remove the small bones of the spine using tweezers.
7		Depending on the size of the salmon, Please cut into two or three vertically.
8		Remove the skin of the salmon with a knife from the side of the tail. You may pull out the small bones of the back side with tweezers
9		Cut to a thickness of 4-6 mm sushi ingredients.

Step 3 How to Make Nigiri Sushi Cuisine

About 3 servings

	Ingredients	About 3 Servings (30 sushi )
a	Salmon sashimi	About 360g
b	Sushi rice	About 630g
c	Wasabi	just a little
d	Hand vinegar/Tezu	120ml

Notes on Salmon

Raw salmon has a risk of the parasite.
If, when you eat raw salmon,
Please save the raw salmon at low temperature in the freezer for 24 hours. That way, you will be able to kill the parasite.

How to Thaw Frozen Salmon

Note Wasabi ( Japanese House Radish )

If, when you grate raw wasabi,
You should grated wasabi just before to make sushi.
Grated wasabi flavor will decrease over time.

How to Make Hand-Vinegar

Put 20ml of water and 100ml of rice vinegar in a small bowl.
Please mix it.

	Sushi Tools	Photos
a	Japanese bowl/Handai/Large bowl
b	Glass bowl/Stainless steel bowl
c	Chopping board

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

About 3-5 servings

	Photos	Recipe For Salmon Nigiri Sushi
1		Wet the palm of both hands with hand-vinegar. Make a ball of vinegared rice about the size of a ping-pong ball in his right hand.
2		Have a food (salmon sashimi) with your left hand. Put a small amount of wasabi on top of the ingredients(salmon sashimi).
3		Put the rice ball on top of the salmon sashimi.
4		Adjust the shape of sushi while pressing with the fingers of the right hand.
5		Adjust the shape of the sides of the sushi.
6		Press it down lightly from the top of the ingredients, please reshape.
7		Put the sushi on the plate slowly.
8		Salmon sushi dishes is completed.

When making sushi, you must wash your hands clean.
It is very difficult to make nigiri sushi.
Japanese does not make nigiri sushi at home in Japan.
Japanese people always eat sushi at the sushi restaurant.