Sushi anyone???

SUSHI!

By the end of this blog post you can be making your own sushi at home!

exciting huh?

I'm not gonna lie at all, when I first made this at home for my Hubby I felt like a RoCk*StAr*

hahaha I know I'm a nerd and it doesn't take much to get me excited.

So Lets do this!!!

I bought all my goodies to make sushi at HEB, you could easily go to a hong kong market and get everything {and I'm sure for half the cost} But I was intimidated to go to one by myself!

Anyways, this is what you need:

a sushi mat

cling wrap {to cover your mat and tap together on the other side, so your rice doesn't stick to the mat}

sushi paper

sushi rice

rice vinegar

all the goodies you want in your sushi

We used the following:

avocado

cucumber {julienned}

crab {stick shaped, not lump}

smoked salmon

fried shrimp

jalapeno

cream cheese

soy sauce

wasabi

You could put a hot dog in it if you wanted (don't tell me cause I will gag but whatever floats your boat)

be creative! I just got the things we usually look for when we are at a sushi restaurant

First: cook the sushi rise the way it says on the package. I found out that 2 cups of UNCOOKED rice would cook up to be about 5 sushi rolls, just an FYI

Have everything you want to use in your rolls out and ready to go

Like this!

{P.S check out that belly!}

Now lets make some sushi!

Put the shiny side of the paper down on the mat

Keep a bowl of cold water close by

get your fingers wet before grabbing the rice (it's STICKY!)

See, Sticky!

Spread your rice out to make a thin layer of rice all over the sushi paper

It should look like this!

My first roll is a California roll so I want the rice on the outside of the roll, so I will need to FLIP this

Watch...

Gently pick it up & flip!

TaDa

Rice is now on the bottom which will mean it will be on the OUTSIDE

I am now realizing I missed taking a picture here Oops..

Now is when you would put your filling it. Put it on the bottom third of the roll closest to you. Since I was making a cali roll I put cucumber, crab & avocado

Now roll up the first roll to cover all of the filling and give it a good Squeeze!

Like this:

See the first roll

Now just keep on rollin'

The very last roll you want to roll backwards and give a good squeeze

TaDa

A cali roll!

Cut

Looks just like the real deal huh?

and taste just as YuMmY!

Now make another

Repeat the first few steps:

shiny side of paper down

wet fingers

spread rice

This roll the rice will be on the inside

See how I am putting all the goodies on the bottom third closest to me?

[This is what I was talking about earlier]

First roll and squeeze

keep rollin

Last roll, roll back towards you and squeeze

then cut

Enjoy!!!

Some of the rolls we made:

Cali roll: cucumber, crab, avocado

Jessie roll: smoked salmon, cucumber, jalapeno, avocado

Ashley roll: fried shrimp, cream cheese, avocado

Everything roll (not featured in the above picture) : smoked salmon, crab, avocado, cream cheese, jalapeno, cucumber

Use anything you want! Have FuN! and Enjoy!!!

Leave me comments when you do yours!

YAY SUSHI!

*and a special thanks to my mommy friend Florence for teaching me the day before*