Shiso Sauce PROCESS: Pour vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar into blender, blend. Tear the herbs and add to the blender, blend. Add green onions and fresh spinach, blend. The spinach helps make the color darker and thickens the sauce Add oil slowly with the motor running, puree until smooth. If yo

Traditional Sushi Roll

Avocado for Sushi To prepare avocado for sushi… Cut off a small piece of the stem end. Cut around the avocado, pole to pole, twist to separate the halves. Make a small incision along the skin, peel the avocado, slice the avocado in thin slices using the tip of your knife. For a different versi

Sushi Vinegar PROCESS: Sushi vinegar is equal parts sugar and rice vinegar, we are using one cup rice vinegar and one cup sugar. Mix together and add the juice of one lemon for additional citrus flavor. Use it to season sushi rice. Sushi vinegar will keep in the fridge for up to a week. * If yo

Introduction to Sushi The Food Guru simplifies sushi. With this information and a little practice, you will be rolling great sushi at home. What you need to make great sushi: Sushi Rice Nori Wasabi Bamboo Mat Sharp Knife Cutting Board Damp Cloth Water Bowl Sushi Fingers Fresh Fish Great Sauces

Mango Sauce PROCESS: Pour vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar into blender, blend. Add the mango and blend until smooth. Add oil slowly with the motor running, puree until smooth. If you want to make the sauce thicker, add additional mango Store in a tightly sealed container, should keep for up to

Sushi Mat For rolling sushi you need a bamboo mat, called a makisu. There are 2 styles of mats used for sushi, one is made with thin round bamboo and the other is made with thicker bamboo which is round on one side and flat on the other, the flat side is used when making square or rectangle sushi

Nori Nori is dried seaweed made into a crispy type of paper. Nori comes in sheets 8” X 7” - We want to tear the sheets in half so they are 4” X 7” To do this Fold the paper in half and Fold back the other way and gently tear in half, nori is difficult to cut with a knife. Nori has a smooth sh

Sushi Rice PROCESS: Cooking Rice: Start with 4 cups of rice in a large bowl. Cover it with cold water and scrub the rice by rubbing your hands together, see video. The water will become cloudy, because we are washing the talc off the rice. Drain the cloudy water into the sink, you don’t have to

Inside Out Sushi Roll (California Roll) Inside out rolls are also called uramaki rolls. This is our version that we call Californication. PROCESS: Inside Out California Rolls: For inside out rolls we need to wrap the bamboo mat in plastic wrap hold the mat between your stomach and the plastic w

Knives for Sushi Here are 4 examples of knives you could use for slicing sushi. Long, thin and sharp knives are the best. This first knife is long, thin, incredibly sharp and costs about $500. This one is also long, thin and sharp… it costs about $100. This is a regular chef’s knife, which is ve

Wasabi Wasabi is Japanese horseradish, be careful wasabi gives off serious nasal fumes. Wasabi is much stronger than American horseradish and is also known a Japanese cocaine or yuppie crack… PROCESS: Place wasabi in a bowl with cool water, mix with a fork… This is wasabi paste. Roll it in a l

Sushi: Cooking Rice PROCESS: Cooking Rice Start with 4 cups of rice in a large bowl. For sushi you should use short grain rice. Short grain rice is almost round and has a higher starch content than medium or long grain rice, the extra starch is what makes it so sticky. Cover it with cold wate