Moi recently went for a sushi making course. hahahahaha! It was rather fun though due to the time constraints...nothing much was really "taught" during the course. =P The instructor made it sounds rather simple. The rice used must be the sticky California Japanese type short grain rice. After cooking, mix half a packet of Sushi rice powder (sushi no ko) as shown on the right. The recommendation proportion is about 3 teaspoons of sushi powder to 10oz (approximate 1 cup) of rice. But it's really up to personal taste and preference. Would recommend you to add in the powder sparingly step by step and taste it till your desire taste. The use of sushi powder is a new technique for Moi since previously I was taught to use with the Japanese liquid vinegar which is much tedious and taste is more difficult to control.
Sprinkle the sushi powder evenly over the cooked rice and mix them thoroughly while fanning the rice to cool it down. When mixing, it's important to mix the rice with those wooden flat spoon using a cutting and folding motion to avoid crushing the rice and causing the rice to mix into a paste. Well, you might be wondering why bother to fan the rice to cool down the temperature instead of just cooling down the rice and use it later. This is to ensure that the sushi rice will retain the right amount of moisture to be sticky enough and yet not too warm to become pasty.
Well after the tedious part of making the rice, the rest is rather simple... as per below...
Sushi roll
Take note to use the less shiny part of the nori paper (seaweed) to put the rice on and spread the rice evenly close to the bottom of the nori paper but with a fair bit of allowance at the top. Well rolling the sushi inside the sushi mat, be sure to hold it firmly to compact the rice nicely. Wet the blade of the knife before cutting the sushi, so that the nori won't be stuck onto the blade.
Our next try-out is Sushi-ball making. It's even simpler in steps without the nori. Just placed the ingredients as the bottomest layer and the rice on top. Then wrapped everything inside saran plastic wrap and twist it into a ball.
Sushi ball
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