SUSHI AT HOME!!!

Hey Hey Hey, everyone is waiting for my Sushi turns up rite? and here you are....enjoy reading ya.

Sushi Making: You must have Sushi Nori or Seaweed and bamboo mat.

Before making sushi, I wrap the bamboo mat with plastic cling wrap / food wrapper to avoid sushi rice from sticking onto it.

Some side ingredients that I need for my sushi. Chicken Floss, toasted sesame seeds and also mayonnaise. How come my mayonnaise is the plastic bag? I was thinking of piping out (by cutting a tiny hole) the mayonnaise for decoration later.

Besides that, I have carrots (blanched a few min with boiling hot water, just to make it soft a bit), cucumbers, cooked crab meat sticks and sausages.

Jeng Jeng Jeng...........Here comes the sushi rolling!!!

Making Maki Sushi (seaweed roll sushi)

 Place the sushi nori on the bamboo mat with the rough side facing up.Spread a thin layer of rice on the seaweed. I used the wooden ladle to spread the sushi rice. Please wet the wooden ladle with water for easy spreading. No mess at all. For convenient use, placed a bowl of water just beside you.

Arranged the filling ingredients on the center. And start rolling and pressed tightly. If you found out that the edge seaweed is not sealed properly, just dampen that area with some water.

The sushi roll turn out nicely and not even a tear. Guess making a square shape sushi roll, need more practice, huh? Next time k...

I have made Crab Filament Maki Sushi

Also sausage, chicken floss with mayo Maki Sushi

Making Ura Maki (Inside Out Sushi Roll)

Firstly, same process like making Maki Sushi when spreading the rice. But for this Ura Maki, you got to make sure the rice is spread evenly on the entire seaweed. Next, flip over and placed the ingredients (here I put crab sticks with sausages) neatly on the seaweed surface. Wrap and roll tightly. Lastly coated the sushi roll with toasted sesame seeds. I asked my hubby to get me some Ebikko (orangey prawn roe) but he can't get it for me, so I replaced it with sesames seeds. My MIL like the this very much cos the sesame seeds make the sushi favorable.

Making Temaki Sushi (Hand Roll)

Another easy sushi here. Everytime my hubby will order California Roll Sushi from Sushi King. This time I made some for him and for the rest at home.

1. Cut the Sushi Nori/ Seaweed into half.

2. Spread some rice evenly on the center.

3. Arranged the filling on the rice.

4. Roll up to form a cone shape.

Here you are my Fried Ebi California Temaki Sushi. I made about 4 cones.

Making Nigiri Sushi (Finger Pressed Sushi) 

for kids at home  -Just for fun.

Please wet your hand for doing this Nigiri Sushi. Place some sushi rice on your palm. Depends on what shape you want to form. I'm making like a ball shape in order for the octopus sausage to stand still on top the rice *_^. I piped out the mayonnaise to make their eyes and mouth. LoL. If you want them to look more cute, place a food picker on top of the octopus, it will look like their wearing a hat!!!

How to make the octopus shape? I grab the idea from this blog ENTRY! Try it out, the kids just love it.

In a nutshell

This is our brunch on last SUNDAY.

Calvin finished his octopus and crab shape Sushi, some Maki Sushi and one Fried Ebi California Roll. He praised me "Mummy pandai lor, like Food Channel making...like in the TV". I told him, where got pandai, I just follow the recipe book and seen some video clips from Youtube... @_@.

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 Sushi Rice

Ebi (Prawns) Fried with Bread Crumbs

Tips on how to cut Sushi nicely.

~If you have knife specially for Sushi which is better still, but our normal knife will do the tricks too. Take a wet cloth and wipe the knife surface, make sure the knife is sharp enough. Cut the Sushi roll into half, then again cut into half again and so on. While you cutting a few times, you may find the knife is sticky, then wipe the knife with the wet cloth and continue to cut (If you are hardworking, makes the knife wet everytime after you cut it). As a result, the Sushi will be all in the same size and neatly.