Entertaining Appetizer - Sushi

Do you want to have a try of your own sushi cooked in the convenience of your home? Try this. Sushi is the most famous Japanese food in the world and a favorite of the natives itself, too. They also prepare this kind of food when there is something special. So, what is a sushi? What are they things needed to make it?

Sushi is a rice vinegar, with many different ingredients including rice. It is artfully designed and with variations in its cooking style. The different types of sushi is making a Nigirizushi, Makizushi, Oshizushi, Inarizushi, Chirashizushi, Narezushi. There are many kinds of sushi but let us try to learn Makizushi. So, the materials needed are: Fukin (kitchen cloth), Hangiri (rice barrel), Hocho (kitchen knives), Makisu (bamboo rolling mat), Ryoribashi (cooking chopsticks), Shamoji (wooden rice paddle), Makiyakinabe (rectangular omelette pan ).

Ingredients:

* Sushi rice - short grained rice to be combined with rice vinegar, sugar, salt and sometimes, sake or kombu
* Nori - black seaweed
* Tuna fish and seafoods
* Mixtures and fillers - Pickled daikon radishi, pickled vegetables (tsukemono), fermented soybeans (natto) in natto maki, avocado, cucumber in kappa maki, asparagus, yam, pickled ume (umeboshi), gourd, burdock, and sweet corn with mayonnaise .
* Flavoring - Wasabi or soy sauce

Steps on how to make a Makizushi:

1st Place the Makisu on your preparation table.
2nd Put a nori on top of the Makisu.
3rd Put some rice on top of the nori and spread the rice evenly.
5th Leave a space on the top and bottom of the nori, probably an inch.
6th Put some toppings, you could choose anything you like as long as would be the seafood compatible to each other and then put wasabi on it.
7th Slowly, lift the Makisu and see to it that the nori should be steady So that it will not be damaged. Make sure both of the sides even with are the same size or should be.
8th Roll the Makisu upward.
9th Place both index fingers on the sides of the shape and Makisu makizushi into a square.
10th Cut the makizushi twice with a very sharp knife.
11th Put them together and cut them into pieces.
12th Finished!

If you can not find the things that are needed before making a sushi, you can find other means for that. Be resourceful because this would bring you to the recipe Oriental and feel like you are in Japan. Experience the adventure of making your own dish with the feel of the Oriental.