Japanese Sushi and Sashimi Recipes - Japanese Sushi Rice with Assorted Topping Recipe

  
 

Japanese Sushi Recipes - Sushi Rice with Assorted Topping Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2-3 cups (400-600 g) cooked Sushi Rice (refer recipe)

  • 1 tablespoon dried whitebait or silver­fish, dry-fried for about 5-10 minutes in a pan until crisp (optional)

  • 3 eggs, lightly beaten and fried as an omelet, then very thinly sliced

  • 8 medium shrimp, cooked, peeled, divined, sliced butterfly style

  • 3 oz (90 g) fresh tuna, cut into strips

  • 1 piece (2 oz/60 g) squid, blanched lightly and cut into strips

  • 1 strip (3 oz/90 g) barbequed eel (optional)

  • Nori, thinly shredded, to garnish

  • Pickled young ginger slices, to serve

  • Sashimi Soy Dip (refer recipe) or Japanese soy sauce, to serve

  • Wasabi paste, to serve

Shrimp Flakes

  • 5 oz (150 g) small fresh shrimp, peeled and divined

  • 1 egg yolk

  • 2-3 teaspoons sugar

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method:

  1. Follow the instructions on Sushi Rice recipe to make the Sushi Rice (make 1 1/2 portions for this recipe as a main course).

  2. Prepare the Shrimp Flakes by simmering the shrimp in a saucepan with a little salted water until the shrimp change color. Drain, cool and blend in a food processor. Place the ground shrimp into a bowl and add the egg yolk, sugar and salt and mix well. Place the mixture in a pan and dry-fry over very low heat, stirring constantly, for about 10 minutes or until almost dry and flaky. Transfer to a dry plate and set aside. This can be kept refrigerated for a week.

  3. Mix the Sushi Rice with the dried whitebait (if using) in a wide wooden bowl. With the back of a spoon, pack the rice into four lacquer bowls or boxes and level the surface.

  4. Scatter the sliced omelet over the rice and top with the shrimp, tuna, squid and eel. Garnish with the shredded nori and Shrimp Flakes, and serve with pickled ginger, Sashimi Soy Dip and wasabi paste on the side.

Note: Silverfish are tiny fish sold cured or dried in packets, and barbequed eel is available either canned or in vacuum packs. Substitute Shrimp Flakes with prepared salted salmon flakes (shio zake) , which are available in Japanese specialty stores, sold in plastic packets or bottled.