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Sushi Recipe 1
Temaki zushi

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This dish is best served as a ‘do it yourself’ sushi. Prepare the sushi rice and serve with all the ingredients. Diners can then take a sheet of Nori seaweed, add some rice (be careful not to put too much in) and some of the other ingredients to taste, roll into a cone, dip in the shoyu and munch!

INGREDIENTS

For 4 people

For plain sushi rice:

540 grams rice, cooked with 540ml water

Seasoning for rice:

75 mls (5 tablespoons) rice vinegar
30 gms (2 tablespoons) sugar
5ml (1 teaspoon) salt

AND

2 packets Nori
2 Avocados
200 grams crabmeat or crab stick, smoked salmon, frozen cooked prawn or anything you like
Cucumber cut matchstick size
And/Or lettuce, tuna mayonnaise, use your imagination!
Wasabi (Japanese hot horseradish)
Gari (Pickled ginger)

METHOD

Prepare the rice adding the sushitaro or vinegar seasoning whilst the rice is still hot
Cut the crabstick, smoked salmon into strips
Cut the cucumber into matchsticks
Thaw the prawns
Slice the avocado into strips, adding lemon juice to prevent discoloration
Lay out the rice in a large bowl
Put the salmon, crab, crabstick, prawn, avocado, cucumber and any other ingredients onto a separate serving plate
Cut each sheet of Nori into two triangular or four quarter pieces and put onto an additional serving plate
Serve the gari – normally eaten separately to cleanse the palate during the meal