If there is a fuel food that makes a person tick, it’s definitely sushi for me. My love affair with sushi started at the time I was going out with then ex-boyfriend, now hubby, shortly before are college graduation. This must be one reason too why sushi is at the top of my “comfort food” list. I was, before he made me addicted to sushi, just a slight fan. 😀
For the short life of this blog, I have featured sushi a lot. Nigirizushi, sashimi(fish slices) and sushi items on top of hand-formed clumps of rice, Maki (rolls), sushi items served rolled inside or around nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or algae), Temaki; a large cone-shaped piece of nori on the outside and the ingredients spilling out the wide end. I also at one time featured Musubi, spam slices on top of salt-treated rice. (This variety is popular in Hawaii). I have yet to make Inarizushi, sushi with toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu. There are still lots of sushi types but for today I am serving Chirashizushi.
Chirashizushi (ちらし寿司) means scattered sushi. It is a bowl of sushi rice topped with mixed inredients, raw or cooked. Chirashizushi is filling, for me at least. It is faster and easier to make than the other types of sushi. It is also interesting because the ingredients are often a chef’s choice when eaten outside.
To make Chirazusushi, you’ll need a bowl of sushi rice and your favorite toppings. To make sushi rice you’ll need:
3 1/4 cups water
3 cups Japanese rice
1/3 cup rice wine
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Japanese rice tends to be sticky compared to other rice grains that’s why its ideal to use it so they don’t fall apart.
1. Pour rice into rice cooker. Wash it as you would wash normal rice. Pour 3 1/4 cups water and cook.
2. In a pan, combine rice wine, sugar and salt. Put pan on low heat and stir until sugar dissolves. Cool the mixture.
3. When rice is cooked, put it on a large plate and pour the vinegar mixture over and mix evenly and carefully with a wooden spoon.
4. Fill half a bowl of sushi rice and garnish with your favorite, for me: sa’amon (salmon), maguro (tuna-the redder, the better), surimi (crab sticks) and beni shouga (pickled red ginger). I only forgot to put nori bits.
You can add cooked and uncooked toppings.
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This is my entry for Ruby Tuesday, hosted by the Mary, theTeach.
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Also for Iska’s blogoversary blowout, celebrating four years of glorious food! Congratulations Iska!
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I love all the trappings of sushi, but I don’t like fish, so I always order the vegetarian combo. Yum!
Hey kitchenmaus, my hubby, Vinny, would love this! I’ve never seen it before! Happy Ruby Tuesday! 🙂
Kitchenmaus, you are an artist.
Making me hungry in the middle of the night.
Being from the coast, I’m really not that into sushi.
But this delicious sight , oh, please, give it to me.
From Felisol
I love sushi and sashimi. Only thing is… I haven’t tried preparing them myself. I bought the sushi mats and all about 3 months ago and still waiting for me to get started! Haha! Kelan kaya?
Love your photos. Makes me wanna go fishing for the fish!
And thanks for joining 🙂 Good luck!
SUSHI!!!
I love sushi…. and sashimi …. and I never have enough of it. 🙂
Great photos. I use my rice cooker all the time. WE are big rice eaters. My daughter is just getting to like sushi. I do like certain kinds. ours Photo well.
you are so well-versed with all the sushi stuff? have you lived in japan? just curious :o) i love that bowl. i love sushi and sashimi… interestingly enough, i got sushi in my post too – but a different kind.. check it out. :o)
Looks very yummy. If ya gotta have comfort food then this is the way to go!
I’ve never gotten into sushi but this does look yummy
thanks for letting me know about ‘today’s flowers’ – I’m kind of photo meme’d out but I will check it out
I’m with Dianne, I seem to have an aversion to raw anything. But if like the French say about ‘eating with our eyes’ this looks delicious. Someday i may give it a try, it looks too good to avoid forever :>)
This is different from the kind of sushi I am used to see, thanks for the informative post and recipe!! Happy Ruby Tuesday 🙂
love it, pakain sa inyo ha, hehehe 😀
Ha! am not much of a sushi girl but I’ve taste maybe once only. I just can’t dare to eat the raw fish but this ones on your photo looks more delish than what I usually see in some restos here in PI. Maybe I’ll have to try again, who knows might even like it this time. Nice shots.
Thanks for your great sushi ideas and pics. I love the stuff and the funny faces that my Dad makes when he sees me eating it ~(
Rice cookers are amazing kitchen appliances. It makes me wonder how we ever lived without them. Today there are several brands and models that also vary greatly in prices. You really won’t need the fancy ones.