| If you're not making sushi at home you're missing | | | | section or at your local Asian market: |
| out on a delicious and extremely diet-friendly meal. | | | | Bamboo rolling mat |
| It's easy to make, fast, nutritious, and the raw | | | | Sushi rice (short or medium grain) |
| fish you're afraid of is completely optional. | | | | Nori (squares of roasted seaweed) |
| First let's have a brief overview of sushi for those | | | | Salt |
| who've never had it or those who have tried it | | | | Sugar |
| but want to know more. | | | | Rice vinegar |
| Most Recommended Tips for Lose Weight: Sushi | | | | Imitation crab meat |
| Is Your Friend | | | | Avocado |
| Sushi is the catch-all name for a wide variety of | | | | Cucumber |
| Japanese dishes. The word sushi actually refers to | | | | Wasabi |
| rice with rice vinegar added. Since this is a very | | | | Soy sauce |
| basic and lightly flavored food, it is the many | | | | Prepare the rice according to the directions on the |
| ingredients added to it that really define what dish | | | | package. You will need about 3/4 cup cooked rice |
| you are eating. The raw fish you have heard of is | | | | for each sushi roll, and most people will be full |
| sashimi - an ingredient of many types of sushi - | | | | after eating 1 or 2 rolls. |
| but you can create sushi with virtually any | | | | Most Recommended Tips for Lose Weight: Sushi |
| ingredient that goes with rice. | | | | Is Your Friend |
| In America by far the most common type of | | | | In a small pan, place a tablespoon of vinegar and |
| sushi is Maki-sushi, or rice wrapped in seaweed. | | | | 1/3 tbsp of sugar and salt for each 3/4 cup of |
| The seaweed is called nori and forms the green | | | | rice you are cooking. Heat the resulting mixture |
| skin you can see around sushi pieces. For this | | | | briefly and stir until the sugar dissolves. When the |
| reason maki-sushi are called nori rolls on many | | | | rice is almost done cooking, begin cutting your |
| menus. Also popular is Nigiri-sushi, small bars of | | | | vegetables. Peel a cucumber and cut it into long |
| rice topped with wasabi and sashimi. | | | | thin strips, about a 1/4" around. Same for the |
| It's easy to include sushi into a healthy diet. Think | | | | avocado. If you bought powdered wasabi prepare |
| of the ingredients: rice, vegetables, and fish. Not | | | | it also (just mix in tiny amounts of water until you |
| exactly a heart-attack in the making, just the | | | | get a thick paste). |
| opposite in fact. As long as you don't go | | | | Once the rice is done, remove it from heat and |
| overboard on the rice it is extremely low calorie in | | | | slowly fold in the vinegar mixture. Then lay the |
| addition to being low fat. Where we chomp pork | | | | rice out on a sheet of foil or a baking sheet and |
| rinds and potato chips, the Japanese have sushi. | | | | allow it to cool (traditionally this is done by fanning |
| Care to guess which country has a longer | | | | the rice while slowly stirring it). The rice should be |
| average life span? | | | | slightly damp and sticky, but not wet and mushy. |
| Let's learn how to make a California roll, easily the | | | | Getting the rice right is the most difficult part of |
| most popular nori roll in America today. You will | | | | making sushi, but a little practice will teach you |
| need the following items, all of which should be | | | | what works. |
| easy to find in your supermarket's oriental foods | | | | |