| Do you want to have a try of your own cooked | | | | - Flavoring - Wasabi or soy sauce |
| sushi in the convenience of your home? Try this. | | | | Steps on how to make a Makizushi: |
| Sushi is the most famous Japanese food in the | | | | 1. Place the Makisu on your preparation table. |
| world and a favorite of the natives itself, too. | | | | 2. Put a Nori on top of the Makisu. |
| They also prepare this kind of food when there is | | | | 3. Put some rice on top of the Nori and spread |
| something special. So, what is a sushi? What are | | | | the rice evenly. |
| they things needed to make it? | | | | 5. Leave a space on the top and bottom of the |
| Sushi is a vinegar rice, with many different | | | | Nori, probably an inch. |
| ingredients including rice. It is artfully designed and | | | | 6. Put some toppings, you could choose anything |
| with variations in its cooking style. The different | | | | you like as long as the seafood would be |
| types in making a sushi is Nigirizushi, Makizushi, | | | | compatible to each other and also put Wasabi on |
| Oshizushi, Inarizushi, Chirashizushi, Narezushi. There | | | | it. |
| are many kinds of sushi but let us try to learn | | | | 7. Slowly, lift the Makisu and see to it that the |
| Makizushi. So, the materials needed are: Fukin | | | | Nori should be steady so that it will not be |
| (kitchen cloth), Hangiri (rice barrel), Hocho (kitchen | | | | damaged. Make sure both of the sides are with |
| knives), Makisu (bamboo rolling mat), Ryoribashi | | | | the same size or should be even. |
| (cooking chopsticks), Shamoji (wooden rice | | | | 8. Roll the Makisu upward. |
| paddle), Makiyakinabe (rectangular omelette pan). | | | | 9. Place both index fingers on the sides of Makisu |
| Ingredients: | | | | and shape the makizushi into a square. |
| - Sushi rice - short grained rice to be combined | | | | 10. Cut the makizushi twice with a very sharp |
| with rice vinegar, sugar, salt and sometimes, sake | | | | knife. |
| or kombu | | | | 11. Put them together and cut them into pieces. |
| - Nori - black seaweed | | | | 12. Finished! |
| - Tuna fish and seafoods | | | | If you cannot find the things that are needed |
| - Mixtures and fillers - Pickled daikon radishi, pickled | | | | before making a sushi, you can find other means |
| vegetables (tsukemono), fermented soybeans | | | | for that. Be resourceful because this recipe would |
| (natto) in natto maki, avocado, cucumber in kappa | | | | bring you to the Oriental and feel like you are in |
| maki, asparagus, yam, pickled ume (umeboshi), | | | | Japan. Experience the adventure in making your |
| gourd, burdock, and sweet corn with mayonnaise. | | | | own dish with the feel of the Oriental. |