Japanese food is really very simple and easy to prepare, as long as you get the proper ingredients and equipment. There are many easy Japanese recipes everywhere and have tried to do with more success on your own Japanese dishes at home.

For many, a Japanese sushi recipe is easy to follow. It is actually a very simple process. You must first prepare the sushi rice. You will need three cups of Japanese rice, three and one-fourth cups of water, one-third cup rice vinegar, three tablespoons of sugar, and a teaspoon of salt. Cook rice and let it steam. Combine rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a saucepan. Heat until the sugar is dissolved, and wait until the mixture cools. Rice in a wooden bowl, and pour the vinegar. Use a spatula to stir the rice.

With a bamboo rolling mat, place a sheet of nori wrapper and spread the sushi rice in it. The filling on the rice basket, you can add mango, cucumber, fish, crabs, or any other ingredient that you prefer. Roll the mat, pressing forward to. When the mat has completely rolled, unroll it and you will find a long cylindrical-shaped sushi. Cut into small pieces (sushi rolls) and serve right away.

With this you can use any kind of sushi you want, through the creation of an ingredient you like inside the sushi. Remember that was only the equipment for a bamboo rolling mat is required for you to be better for themselves. Sushi is an easy Japanese recipe that is sure to be a hit with family and friends.

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The word “sushi” in ancient times referred to fish that are preserved in vinegar. As time goes by, sushi has become a complete meal in itself. Now, the staples of sushi would include readily available ingredients like Japanese rice (short grain rice type), dried seaweed and seafood. Because the seafood are locally procured some even enjoy consuming them in raw.

If you are among the few who are reluctant to prepare the traditional hand-rolled sushi, here is the the easiest sushi recipes for you – Scattered Sushi (散らし寿司) salmon and avocado. Mixing all onto the vinegared sushi rice will do.

Chirashi Sushi – Salmon Avocado

Ingredient: ( 4 servings)
-    2 cups of sushi rice
-    4 tbsp rice vinegar
-    2 tbsp sugar
-    2 tsp salt
-    150g  salmon,
-    2 avocado
-    1 cucumber
-    1 piece celery
-    2 tbsp shrimp caviar (ebiko)

Preparations:
Cut cucumber and celery into small cubes. Cut smoked salmon and avocado into bite-sized pieces.
To prepare rice, rinse rice thoroughly in a sieve. Drain well. Pour the rinsed rice into rice cooker, add 2 cups water and start to cook. When the steamed rice is ready, transfer it to a big bowl, add rice vinegar, sugar & salt and cool to room temperature.
When the sushi rice has turned cool, mix the cucumber & celery cubes, ebiko into the rice and stir well. Then, arrange avocado cubes and salmon pieces on the rice then serve.

Japanese Scattered Sushi Recipes.

After some trials and errors such as sushi rice quantity, nori length, sushi ingredients etc.. Here is the Obama Sushi. Obama’s skin is Ami (small shrimp) and shari(sushi rice), black sesame seeds for the hair, and kamaboko(processed fish paste) for the teeth.

Next is American flag portion. The red stripes are made from Maguro Tuna, and the white made from sashimi squid.

A very good idea to utilize the left-over cooked eggs instead of using Uni to create “USA”. It was blended in a food processor then mixed with the sushi rice to make yellow rice. Big saving and no wasting.

Smiley face that also made from the “yellow rice”.

Next, see Mr Ken Kawazumi processing one of the small little sushi cars which appear on the main platter. The window is made from cucumber, the car lights are made from burdock root.

The final creative products by Mr Ken Kawazumi.
USA, Smiley face, Flag..& it finally created a “V” (victory) for Obama !!

Source : Japan MSN

Today we are going to touch on Gari, Pickled Ginger that comes together with sushi or sashimi in Japanese restaurant. You will be given a small heap of pickled ginger which is used to cleanse the palate between bites of sushi. Together with this, you will also be given a small glob of wasabi where you need to mix with soy sauce in the small dish. You just need to mix them until they taste “right” to you.

Gari (がり）　is a type of Japanese tsukemono and it normally uses young ginger. You can always get it at Asian market which are artificially colored in pink. If you are making your own, it typically has a pale yellow to slightly pink hue from the pickling process.

Gari is my “must have” condiment whenever I eat sushi or sahshimi. Of course the main reason is; it helps to cleanse the palate between bites of sushi. At the same time, stimulate the appetite, invigorate the taste buds, and aid digestion.. are benefits that caused me Love them. That is why, whenever I went to the local sushi bars, I usually consumed a huge amount of Gari than others do together with a minimum of 15 dishes sushi. It really makes me so famous there..

Young Fresh Ginger ( 新生姜 )

Ingredients:

250 g young ginger root (shin-shoga)
250 ml rice vinegar
2 Tablespoons sugar
125 ml water

Preparations:

Wash the young fresh ginger under running water, rub off skin. Cut them into thinly slices. Put the ginger into a bowl. Combine rice vinegar and sugar in a small saucepan. Add in water and bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Pour over the ginger and allow them to cool. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 days before eating. Pickled ginger keeps well in the refrigerator for several weeks.

To all sushi lover,  this is a Cool Sushi Games Online that you can challenge yourself how fast you can serve sushi to your customer online..

You need to have a 100% full concentration when you are wrapping the sushi with the correct ingredients (neta), order the ingredients when it is not enough, satisfying long waiting customer by give them Japanese Sake, collecting back the sushi plates etc..

Click the Sushi Recipes to see what ingredients to wrap, click on the telephone to order ingredients such as Topping, Rice and Sake.

So, are you ready to get some hands-on here

Hope you enjoy the Sushi game.

Enjoy Sushi-ing !

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