Top tips for making your own sushi rolls?

[lucysmam]

Our last effort was...erm...interesting 🤣

I've been watching videos, and have decided we used too much rice, and overfilled them (see pic).

Any tips for successful sushi making...would be nice not to have to buy it!

Do you have the mat, and the kit?
Dd makes sushi and says you need that.

she also says don't bother, buy it

The rice looks very wet! Is it sushi rice?

I find cooking my sushi rice in a rice cooker and cooling gives me the best formed rice. And a proper rolling mat! Steady hands help too 😂

Cover your hands in oil to roll
Make jasmine rice (weirdly better)
Use good quality nori roll seaweed

Season your rice and make the day before

The first roll has to be tight
Wet the end of the roll to stick securely

Cover the mat with cling film

We do have a mat! And nori, & rice, from the Asian supermarket in town.

I seem to recall commenting to dd1 at the time that the rice seemed wet 🤷‍♀️ I'll make it this time, the day before.

I did buy a shaping tubey thingy we've not tried out yet but I think the sheets of nori would wrap around twice 🤔

Slice your filling into matchstick thickness slices. Use smoked salmon or raw marinaded. Don’t over fill. Weirdly I’ve just made sushi. Not perfect but they will vanish in a flash.

Agreed the rice looks very wet. Did you wash the rice before cooking? You needs to massage it in a big bowl of cold water to remove the starch. A good few minutes of this before seiving and cooking as instructed.

If using raw fish, make sure it is salmon grade or freeze it before using to kill any parasites.

Spread the cooked rice out to cool it before using it should be almost room temp at least before using. This might remove the excess water. Gently press into the nori in a thin even layer before adding filling and rolling.

Make sure your hands are wet before handling the rice - it sticks like a bitch otherwise.

Use a ultra sharp knife to cut the rolls. Wet the blade before you cut as well.

When you cooked the rice, did you use the correct ratio of rice to water?

I also second using a rice cooker.