Step by Step Guide to Make Delicious Sushi at Home

If you are a food enthusiast who loves cooking, and trying new cuisines and dishes every day you have come to the right place. The popularity of the world famous Asian cuisine has reached heights. The flavours, methods of cooking and the ingredients used to make dishes of the Asian cuisine catches every foodie’s eye. A chef or a person who loves spending time in the kitchen trying new recipes, admires the uniqueness of each dish. The huge variety and combinations used to make dishes from the Asian cuisine make them irreplaceable. 

 

The key to make any dish is knowing its ingredients and the step by step recipe. Get authentic, traditional Asian ingredients from Spice Village, an Asian supermarket in Germany and follow the step by step recipe mentioned below to make one of the most famous Asian dishes, Sushi. This delicious Japanese dish is famous all around the world and can be found at various restaurants but nothing tastes better than a home cooked meal. 

 

Sushi is a seafood and rice dish staple to one of the richest cuisines found under the Asian cuisine bracket. Japanese cuisine is known and admired for tangy and vinegary dishes. Sushi is made using cooked rice in vinegar, veggies, eggs or seafood garnishes and is served cold. From mild spicy to super spicy the flavour of sushi is highly determined by the ingredients used to make it. The hand technique used to make sushi is called Nigiri-zushi. The outer layering of the rice is a sheet of seaweed and the famous spread used is wasabi. 

 

Over the years people of Japan have used various different combinations of fillings and methods of preparation to make 5 main types of sushi rolls. Namely these types are 

1. Nigiri: Sushi rice with raw fish topping
2. Sashimi: No rice just raw fish rolled 
3. Maki: Rice filled with seafood, eggs, or veggies wrapped in seaweed
4. Uramaki: Filling wrapped in seaweed and then the rice on the top
5. Temaki: A cone shaped, hand rolled sushi

 

The making of a sushi roll is a rather satisfying process performed with utmost precision and perfection. Experts spend many hours of their lives perfecting the art of making a sushi roll. So don’t be disappointed if you cannot perfect it on the first try but it will surely look and taste better eventually with practice. 

 

Spice Village supermarket has taken over the Asian market in Berlin by providing premium quality Indian and Asian groceries, ingredients and snackables at super affordable and reasonable prices. Making a market that has helped people living in Germany make their home a multi cuisine friendly one, Spice Village is winning hearts. 

 

Mentioned below is an easy beginner level recipe of how to make Japanese Sushi at home: 

Preparation time: 10 minutes 

Cook time: 35 minutes

Total time: 45 minutes

 

Ingredients: 

1. Sushi rice or sticky rice 
2. Seaweed sheet
3. Dark Vinegar or sushi vinegar 
4. Soy sauce
5. Sugar
6. White sesame seeds 

 

Filing options: 

1. Raw tuna
2. Raw salmon
3. Avocado
4. Cucumber
5. Prawns
6. Tuna mixed with mayo
7. Vegetables

 

For this recipe let us try a simple vegetarian sushi recipe. You can use any vegetables you want. 

 

Instructions: 

1. Thinly slice your veggies like carrots, cucumbers, avocados, etc. 
2. add salt to the vegetables and set aside
3. Take a mixing bowl and add vinegar, white sesame seeds, sugar and cooked rice
4. Carefully pick and place one seaweed sheet on a non sticky surface like cling wrap 
5. Spread rice mixture evenly on the seaweed sheet leaving out the edges
6. Place each strip of vegetable on the rice one by one
7. Avoid overcrowding the vegetables 
8. Roll the mixture gently and tightly in the sheet
9. Once through with rolling, without applying pressure use a sharp knife to cut the roll
10. Serve with wasabi, or soy sauce as dip. 

 

Sushi is best served cold and enjoyed thoroughly when raw fish is used. The flavour of raw fish takes time to develop but once you start liking the taste there is no going back. Sushi is the perfect dinner or lunch dish to serve with some other dishes too. 

 

Asian cuisine dishes are all very unique and delicious and perfect to serve to leave your guests in awe. The method of cooking most Asian dishes requires time and a lot of effort which make them even more tempting to eat. The blend of spices and ingredients used to make dishes in the Asian cuisine along with the method of preparation used makes these dishes truly a chef’s delight. Pairing Asian dishes with sides, other main course dishes and beverages is also very important. To reach every corner of a person’s palette, one has to make the best possible combination which becomes easier when it comes to the Asian cuisine thanks to the wide range of edibles and authentic ingredients from supermarkets like Spice Village in Germany.