Sushi rice is the most important component of sushi making, yet very simple to make. Rice needs to be cooked a little harder for sushi rice than for regular steamed rice, so a little less water is used when cooking. When you master how to make sushi rice, you can make a variety of sushi dishes, such as hand rolls and California rolls.
Sushi Rice
Steamed rice seasoned with rice vinegar and sugar
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice (using 8 oz-cup)
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 3 Tbsp rice vinegar
- 3/4 Tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Cook rice in rice cooker or make it as instructed in the Steamed Rice recipe. If you are using the Steamed Rice recipe, make sure to use 1/4 cup (60ml) less water for sushi rice.
- Mix rice vinegar, sugar, and salt in a small bowl.
- Put hot rice in a big bowl, and cut vinegar mixture into the rice.
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7 Comments
what can you do if you don’t have a rice cooker?
cause i don’t have one
isabella,
please watch our steamed rice recipe!
I was wondering if calrose rice could be used in place of sushi rice. Also can I use it (after made into a flour) for making mochi?
Calrose rice (a kind of short grain rice) is used to make sushi. To make mochi, you need mochi flour (sweet rice flour) not rice flour. It may be easier to buy Mochiko (sweet rice flour) than making it at home.
What do you mean by cutting the vinegar into the rice?
I put everything in rice cooker and it comes out just right!!
Hello, so I’ve been looking at many recipes for rice preparation, and some of the sushi rice recipes say to use dashi in place of water when cooking the rice. Is that normal? Does it have much of an impact other than adding a bit of umami to the dish?