Have you ever wanted to learn how to make sushi at home? Making your own sushi can be so much fun! You get to create your own rolls, add any type of filling, topping and sauce.
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With my step-by-step video tutorial, I’ll show you just how easy it is to make! Plus, tips for filling, cutting and serving! Want to receive new recipe emails in your inbox? Make sure to subscribe to my website and my YouTube channel and turn on notifications!
Selecting Your Seafood
The most important and crucial part of sushi, whether at home or in a restaurant, is the seafood: fish, crab, scallops, etc. It’s very important to buy and use only the freshest, sushi-grade seafood for taste and for food-safety reasons. I get my sushi-grade fish from a Japanese supermarket and a local fish market that delivers to sushi restaurants across town. If you’re not sure about the quality, always ask! Most seafood comes frozen and is then thawed in the store.
Sushi Tools
You’ll need just a few simple tools for making sushi at home! You can buy a sushi kit (affiliate link) with everything you need or a few individual tools like a bamboo rolling mat and a sharp knife to cut your fish and rolls. I recommend also getting a wooden spoon for the rice and chopsticks for serving.
Recipe Variations
You’ll need sushi-grade rice for making rolls. It’s typically a short grain and when cooked, it’s sticky and holds the roll together. Most sushi rice will indicate right on the package so it’s easy to find! Next, just pick your fillings! And this is the best part! I love to experiment and try different combinations of fillings all the time. I have more on fillings in video recipe and down below in the recipe box! Here are a few of my favorite combinations:
- Tuna Salmon Roll – (Tuna, Salmon, cream cheese, tobiko, avocado; topped with salmon, eel sauce, sweet mayo, tobiko, green onions)
- Scallop Lobster Roll – (Cooked lobster with cream cheese, raw bay scallops; topped with tuna, sweet mayo, eel sauce and a touch of sriracha sauce)
- Spicy Tuna Roll – (Tuna, sriracha sauce or spicy mayo, asparagus, cream cheese; tempura deep-fried roll topped with spicy mayo, black tobiko, green onions, eel sauce)
- Lion King Roll – (Snow crab, mayo, avocado, topped with salmon and baked in foil with sauces)
More Recipes!
Enjoyed my full-length sushi tutorial? Make sure to check out my other sushi video – This ‘Spicy Salmon Roll’ is so delicious!
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I an very new to your blog and recipes… I found you by looking for YouTube videos on how to make sushi and found your video very helpful and thats how I got here! I also made Zephyr your way and cant wait to try more on your recipes! thank you Tanya for not only posting the recipes but also making a videos! I am new but already love this blog
i try make sushi for the first time and is success,thank you zoo much for the recipe was delicious.
than you soooo much.
i love sushi.
cathy
Hey Tatyana, I was wondering about the rice for the sushi. Does it need to be specific kind of rice for the sushi or can it just be any regular white rice?
I recommend using short-grain rice for the sushi 🙂
The water to rice ratio and cook time is way off. Rice comes out crunchy!!!
Did you make sure cover the rice while it was cooking?
its delicious!!! love sushi!
Thank you!! 🙂