Feeling more confident with our recent successes, we decided to try our hand at home-made sushi. I've always wanted to try, but been much too daunted by it. Turns out the trick is simply to have the correct type of rice and cook it in the right way, and have a sushi-rolling bamboo mat (all of a pound at the supermarket and well worth it). We started off making teriyaki chicken which was surprisingly simple and rather nice.
We bought special sushi rice which once cooked had to sit for half an hour with the lid on to slowly steam - this made it super sticky! Then came the rolling part, which was difficult but not actually as complicated as I expected! The bamboo mat was the important part as it made rolling so much easier. Interesting the seaweed easily stuck to itself.
Once rolled the ends were a little messy as rice was smooshing out of it, but we simply cut each end off and it looked perfect!
Ta-da! Looks just like shop-bought ones! We had chicken, carrot, cucumber and capsicum ones as well as salmon ones (which I did not eat!).
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