Want a break from the typical green tea ice cream served for after sushi dessert? Try these refreshing strawberries. Matcha, green tea powder, is mixed with white chocolate for a unique treat. After the berries are dipped, a sprinkling of crystallized ginger or toasted almonds add to the presentation. This application also works well with [...]
Pickled vegetables such as eggplant, burdock root and daikon are quite commonly used as components for sushi rolls. In my first days of creating sushi in a small Mississippi town, recipes for pickled vegetable rolls popped up in nearly every sushi book I could find. But most of them I could neither pronounce nor find [...]
Chirashi zushi, also known as scattered sushi, is unrolled sushi served in a container. Often the container is a small bowl or lacquered box. A layer of sushi rice is placed inside the container, then topped or “scattered” with various ingredients such as fish, pickled vegetables, and roe.
I like to use martini glasses to [...]
Cucumber and peanuts is a winning combo whether it makes up just a small component of a salad with tangy vinaigrette or whether the combo is combined with soy sauce and vinegar for a great dipping sauce. The combination is equally as stunning in a sushi roll as the vinegar dressed rice provides just the right amount [...]
In the South, we have an affinity for most things fried – chicken, catfish, okra, pickles, green tomatoes and even sushi. There’s no denying the pleasure of a sushi roll that is coated in crispy tempura bits or one that contains a perfectly fried piece. Entire sushi rolls can be also be dipped in tempura [...]
A quick fry does not completely cook the salmon in this sushi roll. Instead, curry flavored cream cheese is melted and forms a sort of sauce that oozes delightfully over the salmon.
This recipe uses the hoso maki, thin roll, technique. Learn to make a hoso maki here.
Salmon and Curried Cream Cheese Maki
Makes 4 sushi [...]
A sushi press is a wooden or plastic box that has a removable bottom as well as a top used to make pieces of sushi that are topped with fish and various ingredients. This type of sushi is called oshi-zushi. Using a sushi press is an easy way to make impressive, hassle free sushi from [...]
It’s easy to create delicious sushi rolls from common supermarket ingredients if you don’t want to invest in more costly sashimi/sushi grade fish. Though this hand roll is made with inexpensive Nova lox, the flavor is super rich. Also try substituting crabstick for the salmon.
Want to know more about hand rolls? Learn about this tasty [...]
If you’ve ever taken one of my sushi classes, you’ve heard my spiel. You know that I do not advocate making sushi rice on the stove top and insist that sushi rice should be made in a rice cooker. This is advice that I always heed. Cooking quality sushi rice is one of the most important steps [...]
The kappa maki, a type of sushi roll named for a mythical water creature said to enjoy cucumbers, is a classic that can be found on sushi bar menus worldwide. The roll bears just two ingredients cucumbers and sesame seeds yet packs a powerful flavor combo.
This variation of a kappa maki uses roasted peanuts and [...]
