Homemade Sushi

Instructions

Pour 2 cups of water into a pan and add the rice. Bring to
the boil, cover and simmer gently for 10-12 minutes, until
the rice is cooked and all the water has evaporated.

Remove from the heat and stir in the rice vinegar, mirin and
castor sugar. Leave the rice to cool. Fluff up with a fork or
chopsticks.

Lay a sheet of nori shiny side down in the centre of a sushi
mat (if you don’t have one, use a clean tea-towel). Wet your
hands and then pick up a quarter of the rice and spread it
across two-thirds of the nori. Flatten the rice down with your
hands.

Make an indentation along the top end of the rice and spread
with a little wasabi. Lay a quarter of your tuna or chicken and
salad vegetables across the width.

Place your fingers over the filling to hold it in place, then using
your thumbs, pick up the nori mat at the end closest to you.
Roll it away from you, pressing in the filling gently as you do
so.

Continue rolling until the filling is encased in nori, using the
mat to help. Unroll the mat and repeat with the remaining nori,
rice and filling to make 4 rolls in total.

Trim the end of each roll using a sharp wet knife. Cut each roll
into 3 equal pieces. Cut each in half at an angle. Serve the
sushi with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger.

Recipe Information

Portions: 4

Time to make: 1 hour 30 minutes (allowing for cooling of the rice)

Total cost of all ingredients: $18.07 / $4.51 per serve

Low fat

Low kilojoule

Ingredients

1 cup sushi rice (I use Sunrice sushi rice Japanese-style)
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
4 tablespoons rice wine or mirin
1 tablespoon castor sugar
4 nori sheets

Filling:
1-2 teaspoons wasabi (see tip), plus some for serving
150-200g smoked chicken, cut into thin strips (or tuna in water, drained and flaked)
1/2 cucumber, peeled, deseeded and cut into sticks
3 spring onions, trimmed and cut into sticks
1 small red capsicum, deseeded and cut into strips
low-salt soy sauce (such as Kikkoman less salt soy sauce)
pickled ginger

Nutrition Information

per serve

Energy 1240 kJ (299 Cals)
Protein 20.0g
Fat 1.3g
- saturated 0.3g
Carbohydrates 50.1
- sugars 7.4g
Dietary Fibre 3.2g
Sodium 1095mg
Calcium 50mg
Iron 2.4mg

* NS: Not specified