Many dishes of Eastern and Asian cuisine, once inaccessible to mere mortals, have long ceased to be exotic. They can be easily tasted at a bar or Chinese restaurant, or even cooked at home. True, you will need some specific products.
Eel Rolls
Now you will learn how to make sushi and rolls at home. Let's start with the latter. To realize the proposed recipe, you will need: a glass (250 gr.) Of round rice. In his absence, you have to be content with a little long one. One and a half glasses of water, a spoonful of vinegar (tablespoon), fish fillet (namely
eel, smoked), 100 gr. Still need a sour cucumber, specific
red algae, pressed into sheets, - nori. This is a mandatory component of the dish, it should not be forgotten by those who learn how to make sushi and rolls at home. Nori requires at least 3 sheets. Hard cheese, pickled ginger (50 gr.) As a spice, soy sauce (gr. 70-100) and spicy-burning (like our mustard) wasabi paste will help preserve the oriental flavor of the dish. Now it’s more detailed how to make sushi and rolls at home, or rather, just the rolls. As the main technical device, you are invited to use a multicooker. Start with rice: sort, rinse, fill in the bowl, pour a centimeter above the cereal with water and turn on the buckwheat. When the rice is cooked, cool it a little, mix with vinegar. Eel should be cut with a sharp knife with a wide blade (it is more convenient for them) into thin narrow stripes (approximately, like eggplant for stuffing).
In the same way, chop the cheese and cucumber, not across, but along. Now the intricacies of the process of making sushi and rolls typical of rolls at home: lay a piece of cling film on the table. Put a noriya plate on it. Spread a little rice on top with a spoon, on it a plate of cheese, fish and cucumber. Use cellophane to roll a roll. To wet the edges of the noriya so that they stick, and the roll does not fall apart. Make rolls in this way from the total number of products. Cut them into pieces and put on a flat dish. Following the rules on how to make sushi,
rolls at home and eat them in accordance with the traditions of Asian cuisine, put chopped pickled ginger, wasabi paste and soy sauce on the table in small bowls. And, of course,
Chinese sticks! If the first time you have the appearance of the dish a little pumped up - it does not matter. Practice a couple of times, and the dish will become your crown.
Shrimp Rice Sushi
We will continue to study how sushi and rolls are prepared. You can see recipes with photos here, as well as get acquainted with them in different cookbooks. Sushi, another seafood dish, competes with rolls in popularity. Their cooking technology is close, and the ingredients are similar. You also need a glass of rice, the same as in the previous recipe, the amount of water, soy sauce and ginger. Nori for sushi goes less - just one leaf, divided into parts, is enough. Wasabi pasta, too, just nothing, 1-2 teaspoons, a spoonful of vinegar. 8-10 slices of
smoked eel and the same amount of shrimp. Cook rice (see previous recipe), mix with vinegar. Remove the meat from the shrimp, beat it off slightly. Boil them in a slow cooker (pour a glass of water) in the "steaming" mode, cool. From half of rice and nori make sushi with shrimp, from the remaining - with eel. Each lightly flavored wasabi. Serve with sauce and ginger.
Here is such an interesting Sino-Japanese cuisine you get!