Anyone made their own sushi?

[HarrySnotter]

It's expensive to buy and I love it for lunch so thought I might have a bash at making my own. Anyone tried this?

DD made vegetarian sushi for food technology. I think you’d have to be fairly committed to save money as we bought a ton of ingredients, rolling mat etc and it was a once only venture. It was exactly like what you would buy so if you like it definitely worth a try

We do though I haven't quite mastered the rice yet. Not as tricky as it seems, other than the rice!

Yes lots since I was gifted a sushi bazooka machine. It tastes 99% the same to me. Generally I use smoked salmon, cream cheese, avocado, cuecumber, tuna.

Yes, you can get everything you need from Tesco! I use avocado, crab sticks, smoked salmon, cucumber

Yo sushi do a sushi school, show you how to make sushi and you take home at the end. £50 for 2 or £30 for 1. You come home with over 30 pieces of sushi, a booklet and mat. Obviously you have to buy your ingredients but then you know how to make it.

I remember a number of years ago one of the shopping channels had a sushi making kit with moulds etc that would make the shaping really easy. I was tempted, but then I started to think about the costs of the ingredients and didn't bother.

I regulary make it for the kids school lunches. If you dont have a matt you can improvise with a tea towel or alfoil.
I use the meat from the teryaki chicken kebabs you get from the deli. Its the perfect amount for two rolls. A bit of avocado and thinly sliced cucumber and carrot.
Also canned tuna mixed with mayo and chilli sauce is nice.

DD (16) regularly makes sushi, as others uses cucumber, smoked salmon, and prawns. We have wasabi paste, pickled ginger, and soy sauce too.

The only time consuming bit, is cooking and cooling rice, but even that isn't too much of a faff.

Ooo I think I might give this a go. Both DD and I love it.

It’s hard to get fish fresh enough to make sashimi but sushi is easy, Sainsburys even sell a kit!
I’ve made it with tinned tuna and also crab sticks

Keep an eye out for when Lidl do their Japanese specials and you can get everything you need. I did some but only did avocado and crab stick as was uneasy using raw fish. They were delicious though.

Yes we make it fairly regularly. Buy a pack from Tesco and go for it. Have a look on YouTube for the rolling technique if you're not sure. I find the amount of rice they recommend can result in a lot of sushi so be aware!

Also the sushi rice takes 25 mins to cook and needs to cook before you make the sushi so don't forget to do all that first

With regards to the fish, we go to the fish counter in tesco and ask the fishmonger for fish suitable to eat raw in sushi- he knows what we mean. Otherwise we use smoked salmon and buy the cheap packs of bits chopped up.

Enjoy! It's a lovely activity to do with kids

Needs to *cool!

Yup my 12 year old makes it at least once a fortnight to take in for lunch. She's even mastered the California roll. Really easy once you have a mat.

I make sushi all the time usually just raw tuna and salmon, and panko crumbed cooked prawn.

It's easy and super tasty, and cheaper. Just freeze the fish first for 7 days, then defrost and use.

I was going to say it’s harder than it looks! If you can, go to a class to learn how to do it. Useful to have sharp knives for the California rolls. The outlay is not too bad as the mirin etc. lasts. I don’t used raw fish as I don’t have a good supplier, but you can use vegetables, smoked salmon, smoked mackerel etc. instead.

Yes, all you need is a rolling mat and to stock up on sushi rice, nori and vinegar and you'll wonder why you ever paid £4 for 17p worth of rice.

No because sashimi grade fish is very expensive (google online for suppliers) and unless you’re doing some sort of a sushi platter for a large group, it’s not worth the savings.

Yes. But only veggie versions.

So inari, cucumber maki, avocado maki, carrot maki and tomago nigri.

The ingredient that's the hardest to get is the seasoning-I cba to make my own! But you can with sugar and rice vinegar.

With fish, it's worth knowing that food law in the U.K. requires fish that's going to be eaten raw be frozen for 24 hours first if it's not from classified parasite free waters.

Loads of tutorials on line. Weirdly I'm an accomplished cook but struggle with rice unless it's boil in the bag, however I've had no trouble with sushi rice-I just bought the best quality in every I could find and followed the instructions to a t!

It's the seasoning of the rice I cannot master and also finding my rice is a bit too wet
The sushi bazooka is brilliant

“I make sushi all the time usually just raw tuna and salmon, and panko crumbed cooked prawn.

It's easy and super tasty, and cheaper. Just freeze the fish first for 7 days, then defrost and use.”

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First off, you need 14 days of freezer time to kill parasites, not 7. Second, regular tuna isn’t sashimi grade. Boak.

It's a bit of a faff but I looooove doing homemade maki. Especially when going for picnics, if you can keep it chilled long enough. Salmon with Philadelphia m, tuna and cucumber, tons of soy sauce. Fab.

@purpleelk

Sushi-grade and sashimi-grade are marketing terms. And when you see them, they are only as reliable as the fish market you are buying them from. It simply means that seller has deemed them safe to eat. It's not a protected term.

Almost all species of tuna have been deemed safe to eat raw WITHOUT freezing (by the FDA) and farmed salmon has been deemed safe to eat without freezing. But if you want to be sure then they should be frozen in a super feeder for 24 hours, or at 0 degrees for 7 days.

*super freezer

Basically, with tuna and farmed salmon you are safe. Supermarket is fine. Just make sure the salmon is farmed in Britain or Norway or the USA, as they are typically parasite free due to strict controls.

But squid, or other fish uses in sushi, need treated a certain way and aren't safe to use raw if you just buy them from the supermarket.