The Easiest Sushi Recipe: Scattered Sushi with Salmon and Avocado

What will you think of if the words “Japanese Food” are mentioned? In common, most will think of one specific dish in mind - sushi. This is the reason why sushi has become the flagship of Japanese cuisine that most welcomed food in the world.
The word “sushi” in ancient times referred to fish that are preserved in vinegar. As time goes by, sushi has become a complete meal in itself. Now, the staples of sushi would include readily available ingredients like Japanese rice (short grain rice type), dried seaweed and seafood. Because the seafood are locally procured some even enjoy consuming them in raw.

If you are among the few who are reluctant to prepare the traditional hand-rolled sushi, here is the the easiest sushi recipe for you - Scattered Sushi with salmon and avocado. Mixing all onto the vinegared sushi rice will do.

Chirashi Sushi - Salmon Avocado

Ingredient: ( 4 servings)
- 2 cups of sushi rice
- 4 tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 150g salmon,
- 2 avocado
- 1 cucumber
- 1 piece celery
- 2 tbsp shrimp caviar (ebiko)

Preparations:
Cut cucumber and celery into small cubes. Cut smoked salmon and avocado into bite-sized pieces.
To prepare rice, rinse rice thoroughly in a sieve. Drain well. Pour the rinsed rice into rice cooker, add 2 cups water and start to cook. When the steamed rice is ready, transfer it to a big bowl, add rice vinegar, sugar & salt and cool to room temperature.
When the sushi rice has turned cool, mix the cucumber & celery cubes, ebiko into the rice and stir well. Then, arrange avocado cubes and salmon pieces on the rice then serve.

This Week Recipe: Multicolour Sushi!

The name might sound a little funny, however it is the best way to describe it.

This sushi all came about because I, being an absolute ‘foodie’ (meaning that although I may be swamped creating, testing, photographing and styling recipes all while working at my paid job and having a fridge full of food to eat) thought it would be a great idea to make sushi for dinner.

Being a little over worked and tired, I started to cut the carrots and cucumber into batons but before I realised it I had cut them all into brunoise.

I carried on and decided to mix the vegetables into the cooked rice along with some cooked tuna. The result was a very eady sushi to roll that not only looks lovely but taste great too.

What I really love about this sushi is that no matter what bite you have you always have a mouthful of flavour and not just rice!

Enjoy making it at home for friends or family (it is a great recipe for young chefs to make too).


Ingredients
1 cup sushi rice
3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
4 sheets noir,
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 Lebanese cucumber, finely chopped
1 tin of good quality tuna
soy sauce
pickled ginger
Bamboo mat

Method
Place rice and 1 1/2 cups water in a saucepan, cover and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.

Turn off the heat and leave covered for a further 10 minutes.

Whisk together the sugar and vinegar until dissolved.

Spread the rice onto a tray and sprinkle with the vinegar. Leave to cool. When cool mix through the cucumber and carrot.

Lay a nori sheet shiny side down. Place rice on the sheet leaving 1 cm at each end. With wet fingers press the rice until it is 1/2 cm thick.

Start to roll up from the end that is closest to you. Continue to roll tightly by lifting the bamboo mat as you go. Wet each end and push gently to seal.

Slice the sushi into 1 inch long pieces with a sharp wet knife.

Serve with soy sauce and pickled ginger.

Make 16 pieces of sushi.

Bon Appetite

Sushi!

In Japanese cuisine,sushi is vinegar rice,usually topped with other ingredients,such as fish.Sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi,as distinct from sushi.Combined with hand-formed clumps of rice,it is called nigirizushi.
Sushi served rolled inside or around nori(dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or algae)is makizushi.Toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tafu is inarizushi.Toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice is called chirashi-zushi.

Tips to Keep in Mind When Selecting Sushi Items

Now that one knows buying their sushi from a specialty restaurant, a restaurant which constantly offers sushi or a grocery store with sushi counter will often yield the best entrees, there are a few tips to keep in mind when buying this delectable food item. First, know what you are eating. It is a good idea to inquire about the sushi contents prior to buying it so that you are getting exactly what you want and nothing which you do not wish to have.

Another tip to keep in mind is to inquire about its freshness. Find out when it was prepared, if purchasing from a grocery sushi counter, and only choose one which is extremely fresh. This will help you to find the freshest sushi out there and not take the chance of getting sick from fish which is not fresh.

Lastly, when buying various sushi items, try to expand your repertoire in the sushi department from time to time. Try various sushi plates in order to increase your varieties of sushi which you eat. When you buy sushi, keep in mind that you don’t know if you like it until you try it.