Making Sushi Without Mat

If you can t manage to track down a bamboo sushi mat or don t want to invest in more culinary trappings when you ve just started out in sushi making don t worry.

Making sushi without mat.

Start by making the perfect sticky sushi rice or try this brown rice version and chopping up your veggies of choice. We don t have access to much sushi grade seafood in the midwest so i most often stick with veggies. You can get the same result from a. Heat the white rice in a pot on the stove or use a rice cooker to prepare the rice for the sushi.

Nori sheets 3 pieces sushi rice 1 cup can be replaced with round corn rice water 1 5 cups rice vinegar for rice 2 tbsp raw sugar 2 tbsp salt to taste sesame seeds enough to sprinkle nori sheets 3 pieces fillings avocado cucumbers carrots radish asparagus rocket salad and coriander to keep it vegan. Then add 2 tbsp of sugar and a dash of salt. All this without using a bamboo mat. Pull the plastic wrap off of the outside of the roll and use a sharp knife to cut the roll into six to eight pieces and turn the pieces on their sides for serving.

With just a little practice you can make sushi rolls at home that are as dazzling to look at as they are delicious to eat. So if the rolling part has been preventing you from making sushi rolls at home you can now go ahead with ease. If you do not have sushi rice you can use white rice and prepare it as you normally would. The plastic molds using for sushi making is durable and easy to use.

Make your own sushi. Create sushi rice with 1 cup 158 g of white rice and a vinegar solution. Dab water along the nori strip to moisten and pull it up and over the sushi roll pressing it in place to make it stick to the rest of the roll and seal the roll. Add short grain rice to a pot at a 2 1 ratio of rice to water 2 cups of rice and 1 cup of water for 3 5 rolls of sushi.

While i ve tried making the more traditional sushi with the proper rice seasoning and a makeshift mat it s a lot of work. How to make sushi without a bamboo mat first you will cook your rice. How to make sushi without a mat. Making sushi at home is surprisingly simple.

We ll start with how to make sushi for beginners which means sushi rolls. That s why i learned to make it myself which is not only super cheap but also quite easy to do. It is dishwasher safe so you can clean the kit by simply putting it inside the dishwasher.