How to make sushi without a rug?

Sushi is a dish of traditional Japanese cuisine made from rice and various seafood, vegetables, seasonings. This dish has countless recipes. Rolls are rich in proteins and fatty acids. In addition to the benefits, they are always fascinated by their unusual serving on special dishes: avocados, ginger and lemon are served in separate bowls, and all this beauty is offered with special sticks. And the whole process turns into a real ritual. In Japan, even a teenager can cook delicious rolls with different fillings. Let's try and we will cook and wrap these mysterious sushi. And if you do not have a special rug at hand, it does not matter, we'll find what to replace it with. Before proceeding to clarify the question of how to make rolls at home without a rug, let us examine the main ingredients of this dish.

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Products for sushi

Before you start the wonderful creative process, you have to assemble everything that you will create your culinary masterpiece from. You will need such products and items.

Rice vinegar or su

For making sushi, it's better to use Japanese vinegar, called "su".This vinegar tastes a little sweet, mild.

Important! A counterfeit product of poor quality can spoil the whole taste of a dish, so try to get a quality original vinegar.

Wasabi

If possible, choose wasabi in powder, it is very easy to cook - just mix it with water, and after 10 minutes it will be ready for use.

Important! In paste-like prepared wasabi, as a rule, a lot of unnecessary chemistry and preservatives for the safety of the product.

Nori

Nori are Japanese seaweed, they are sold either as whole sheets or cut into thin strips.

Important! The darker the nori, the more pronounced their aroma.

Gary

This is simply a pickled ginger that will help to refresh the mouth and neutralize the taste of the previous dishes.

Important! White ginger has a softer taste, and pink - more spicy.

Soy sauce

Rolls are eaten by dipping them into soy sauce. It gives the dish a more juicy and mellow flavor. Quality sauce is prepared without using flavors and dyes, by natural fermentation.

Important! Try to buy sauce in glass jars, because the aroma, taste and useful properties of the product are not stored in plastic or plastic packaging.

Other Ingredients

It can also be used to make this dish a masago - a caviar of flying fish, which is used for decoration. Suitable salmon caviar, Japanese mayonnaise with a softer and sweet taste, as well as cucumbers, crab sticks, cheese, avocado.

Makisu

This is a special mat that helps roll roll, without violating the integrity of the design. But you can make sushi without such a rug. This we will discuss below.

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Cooking rice

This is the main component of any sushi. The most difficult thing when making rolls is to make the perfect rice so that it does not crumble, but it is not too sticky.

Important! If you cook the first time, it makes sense to buy the finished product in a specialized store. If you are determined to do everything yourself, then buy sushi rice with short and round kernels. Long rice is not suitable, because it is very dry, and dazzle it with buns or wrap it in such rice stuffing, that is, make sushi without a rug or with it, it will not work.

How do I process it?

1. Rinse the rice until the water becomes clear. If it is not well washed, then when cooking it will be covered with sticky starch.
2. Drain the water and press firmly with his hands for a few seconds.
3. Fill with water, repeat the procedure several times.
4. In Japan, they use special rice cookers, in which a special program is exhibited. We will have to work hard. Put the rice in a deep saucepan and pour water in the proportion of 1 to 1.5.
5. After a while, water will be absorbed into the rice, small holes will appear on its surface.
6. Remove the pan from the heat and without removing the lid, press for 15 minutes.
7. Mix 3 tablespoons of rice wine vinegar, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 0.5 teaspoon of salt until smooth. Add this mixture to the present rice and mix thoroughly.

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How to make rolls?

To make rolls, you need a bamboo mat - a makis. But what if you do not have it at hand, rather than replace the sushi mat at home? Let's consider all possible variants.

Towel

You can use a thick towel. It is so flexible that it makes it possible to form rice rolls without much effort. Just wrap it before using a food film so it does not get dirty.

So, how to make rolls at home without a rug?

• Fold the nori sheet in half and cut with scissors. Put on the towel one half of the nori shiny side down. The rusty side must be on top.
• Wet hands in water in which vinegar is dissolved.
• Take 4 tablespoons of rice and distribute rice over the entire surface of the nori.
• We leave a free strip from the top edge about 1 cm, and from the bottom - 0,5 cm.

Important! Do not forget to wet your hands constantly so that the rice is evenly distributed. The height of the rice layer should be about 7 mm.

• Top up the stuffing. It can be a fish or you can use something else on your own.
• Fold the roll neatly with a towel.
• Evenly cut it with rings.

Important! Use a well sharpened knife and wet it before each incision. So the rice will not stick to the blade.

Food film:

1. Nori can be placed on a food film.
2. When the sushi preform is formed, wrap the sheet by removing the film.
3. Then, using a wide knife or rolling pin, give the workpiece the shape of a rectangle.

Of course, ideally wrapped rolls you may not be able to, but for their taste this will not exactly affect.

We make a special mat with our own hands

You can make a sushi mat with your own hands. For this you will need foil. Cut out several sheets of foil and fold them together. Must get one thick leaf. Homemade rug is ready!

Twist sushi the way you do with a mat.

We do not use any additional accessories

What else can I replace the sushi mat at home?- You can roll the roll simply with your hands without additional tools.

The most affordable and affordable is always an option. The main thing is to press harder, tampering the filling a little, so that the rice does not fall out. You need to slightly moisten the nori with water, then put the stuffing and roll the roll.

As you can see, even such an intricate process as the preparation of sushi can be learned, and it is not necessary for this to go to the historical homeland of this dish. Of course, it's impossible to make such rolls as they should ideally be, with observance of all traditions, but to diversify your home's diet with interesting and tasty food - just will!