There are many kinds of sushi. For example, there are classic cases which is

sushi(hand-rolled sushi),sushi roll, sushi pocket. In addition, there are

pressed sushi, sushi bawl, TEMARI sushi(which is the shape of small ball.), etc.

The common feature of the sushi mentioned above is using rice.

The heading which I would like to mention first is about rice.

If it says why I would like to talk about rice, it is because the knowledge

about the rice which is an important point is required to make delicious sushi. Even if it can arrange however quality and fresh foods, if rice is bad,

we cannot make delicious sushi. Well, I itemize some points for making delicious sushi rice below.

• Choice: In order to make sushi rice, the rice which is moderately sticky

is good. When making sushi, the rice with strong stickiness

is easily collapsed, and it is sloppy texture. If sushi rice

is made from rice without stickiness. since it does not

have adhesive power, the rice does not stick each other,

and then it does not get a form of sushi well. The kind of

rice chosen in Japan is sasanisiki. In the overseas, is it

Californian rice? If you can not get the both kinds of rice,

there is a good way. When cooking rice, glutinous rice of

several percent is added. Let's adjust in order to take out

moderate stickiness.

Next, an important point is rice cleaning.

• Rice creaning: When cleaning rice, do no put much power.

Because the flavor ingredient of rice is also lost.

Let's replace water several times cleaning rice

until water gets clear. It cleans quickly so that

excessive moisture may not be included in rice.

If it finishes cleaning rice, excessive water will

fully be drained with a colander.

The 3rd point is how to cook rice.

• Cook rice: Before cooking rice, rice is soaked in water about 30 minutes.

Although it is convenient if there is a rice cooker, even

if it uses a pot, sufficiently delicious rice can be

cooked. The quantity of the water put into a pan is 200ml

of water to rice 180ml. How to cook the rice in a pan,

The pan is covered, and it cooks over middle-high

heat until it boils for about 10 to 15 minutes. If it

begins to boil strongly, it will lower the heat and will

heat it for 5 more minutes. If a lid is opened and

surface of moisture disappears, fire will be stopped and

rice will be steamed for 10 minutes. It is completion,

when opening a lid iafter 10 minutes and turning up the

whole rice with a flat wooden spoon.

The base of delicious sushi rice was done in the above-mentioned explanation.

How to make sushi rice briefly is explained from here.

• A sushi box is prepared and the inner side of that is wiped with the wet

dishcloth.

• Cooked rice is moved from a pan to a sushi box, and the cooked rice is

placed so that it may spread in the whole sushi box.

• A proper quantity of sushi vinegar is added to the cooked rice, turning a

sushi box with the left hand (right hand), the cooked rice is mixed so

that a character may be written with the flat wooden spoon which it had

with its dominant hand. Let's mix the cooked rice, sometimes cooling with

a fan. (Notice:At first, since the cooked rice is hot, be sufficiently

careful of a burn.)