How To Make Sushi

Published on April 14, 2014 | In Asian | By tatyanaseverydayfood |

- Prep Time
- 30 Minutes
- Difficulty Level

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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. 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!

The most important 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! The second part is the sushi. You’ll need sushi-grade rice, which is typically short grain and when cooked, it’s sticky and holds the roll together.

The next step in making sushi are the tools. You’ll need just a few simple tools like a bamboo rolling mat and a sharp knife to cut your fish and rolls. Check out Amazon for the rolling mats – they’re super cheap! Once you have your tools, 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, cream cheese, tobiko, avocado; topped with salmon, eel sauce, sweet mayo, tobiko, green onions)

(Cooked lobster with cream cheese, raw bay scallops; topped with tuna, sweet mayo, eel sauce and a touch of sriracha sauce)

(Tuna, sriracha sauce or spicy mayo, asparagus, cream cheese; tempura deep-fried roll topped with spicy mayo, black tobiko, green onions, eel sauce)

Watch my video recipes for step-by-step instructions!

And try my spicy salmon roll, too! https://tatyanaseverydayfood.com/recipe-items/spicy-salmon-sushi-roll/

And don’t forget to save the recipe for later on Pinterest!

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Ingredients

For Sushi Rice:
3 cups short-grain Japanese rice
1/4 cup rice vinegar
2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 1/4 cups cold water

Instructions

Rinse rice in fine mesh strainer under cold water for a few minutes then shake off excess water. Place into large sauce pot along with water. Cook covered over low/medium heat, bring to a simmer, turn heat down to low and cook just until water is evaporated - about 7 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat.
In small saucepan, combine the rice vinegar, sugar and salt. Cook over low heat and stir until dissolved. Pour over prepared rice, stir with wooden spoon, cover rice and let stand for at least 30 minutes before using. Let the rice cool enough so it's just warm to touch.
Other ingredients/tools needed, all based on preference: wooden bamboo rolling mat dried nori seaweed sheets
fillings: sliced smoked salmon sushi-grade raw salmon, tuna, albacore or scallops (cannot be previously frozen!) cooked real crab, lobster or shrimp fresh tobiko (fish eggs) diced green onions sliced cucumber fresh asparagus avocado
sauces: cream cheese or sweet Japanese mayonnaise eel sauce wasabi sauce spicy mayo - combine regular mayonnaise with sirachyia sauce tamari/soy sauce
Some of my favorite combinations: (Tuna, Salmon, cream cheese, tobiko, avocado; topped with smoked salmon, eel sauce, sweet mayo, tobiko, green onions) (Cooked lobster with cream cheese, raw bay scallops; topped with tuna, sweet mayo, eel sauce and a touch of sriracha sauce) (Tuna, sriracha sauce or spicy mayo, asparagus, cream cheese; tempura deep-fried roll topped with spicy mayo, black tobiko, green onions, eel sauce)

Course : Main Dish
Recipe Type : Dinner, Lunch, Seafood Recipes, Video

8 Responses to How To Make Sushi

Luba May 19, 2014 at 6:57 pm #

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

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cathy July 30, 2015 at 4:55 am #

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

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Katie January 24, 2016 at 8:24 pm #

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?

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- tkorchemnaya January 25, 2016 at 10:32 am #
  
  I recommend using short-grain rice for the sushi 🙂
  
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Sherry Z. November 9, 2018 at 12:19 pm #

The water to rice ratio and cook time is way off. Rice comes out crunchy!!!

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- tatyanaseverydayfood November 10, 2018 at 10:38 am #
  
  Did you make sure cover the rice while it was cooking?
  
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