Today my middle son turned 18 and he wanted some Japanese food. I made some maki tuna rolls (conventional and inside out) followed by some tempura vegetables and prawns. I do not often make sushi rice so have always relied on the instructions on the Takara sushi rice packs I used to buy at Waitrose.
Unfortunately Waitrose has changed supplier. The British firm that is supplying the rice offers a 500 g pack (like Takara) but offers instructions in cups. Odd isn't it when cupmeasures have not been used in the UK either in metric or imperial. How many grams of rice in a cup. Thankfully I had the Takara rice instructions written down longhand on a sheet of paper. I will document them here for safe keeping!
250 g rice
boil the rice then when still warm add
2 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tbsp mirin
2 tsp caster sugar
(1 tsp salt)
mix the dressing and gradually fold into the rice.
The salt I leave out as it seems excessive (recommended daily amount for one person) and with sushi being dipped in soya and wasabi there is enough salt around anyway! ...I also have hypertension so need to be sparing with salty anyway.
2007-11-03 @ 23:32