Making Sushi!!

[Chil1234]

I've just discovered the delights of sushi-making and wondered if there are any other 'rollers' out there that want to share tips or favourite combos.

Well, i want to start making it, at the moment all i am doing is sashimi! So easy! Come home slice up fish, devour. Luckily, my dds enjoy it too.

Have you been teaching yourself? I used to make sushi rolls Bout twelve years ago but i have forgotten how to do it... Remember also making japanese omelette - so much fun...

I quite fancy joining you as a 'roller'... Might have to get myself a mat this weekend

Our default is tuna (tinned) and cucumber for packed lunch. Other usual ones are real tuna cooked very lightly, and smoked salmon. We do rolls but also temaki rolls - learned from youtube. Plus point: people can roll their own and leave me alone!

I'm mostly making rolls with the nori on the outside, rice in the middle and various fillings.. don't know the correct name. And I think it's 'Californian Rolls' with the rice/sesame on the outside. Been teaching myself via some YouTube clips. My Japanese omelette came out surprisingly well. Favourite filling so far has been roasted salmon flakes and kiwi... with a dab of squeezy mayo to keep it stuck together.

Any tips on how to get the sushi rice looking as good as possible? I've been going through a process of wash/rinse/soak before steaming with a little dashi. When done, I've been adding a little rice vinegar with some sugar melted into it. But sometimes the rice looks too 'puddingy'....

Cristiane where do you buy your fish? DH and I mainly eat the salmon, but I guess you can't just slice up the supermarket fillets and eat them? Or can you?

Our fish monger refuse to say you can eat the fish raw - but we cook our tuna very briefly, literally 10 seconds on each surface. Probably can do that with the salmon too?

I boil the sushi rice. 1 cup rice, 2 cup water. No soaking/rinsing/washing. Then add rice vinegar and sugar and salt. I discover you can't do onigiri if you do that... Rice balls fall apart...

I think you just have to ferret out the very best fish suppliers in your area and go to them and then TELL them that it is for sushi and see what they have.

If they are good fish suppliers they won't be worried about telling you whether they have anything that is super-fresh and would be suitable as sashimi/sushi.

In Edinburgh I used to get fish for sushi at Eddie's fish market in Marchmont, which is (or was, I hope it still is) amazing. I'm on the other side of the city now though :(

I get my sushi fish from eddie's too dirtymartini! you say you wantyp your tuna for sushi and they disappear off to the knack fridge and then come back with sushi grade fish. Love it.