Saturday, July 21, 2012
Learning how to make Sushi with my Little Brother
Clearly, Sushi is not a traditional food here in Spain. However, my host mom's brother came over for dinner last night and thought it would be fun to teach everyone how to make Sushi. First, we cut all the ingredients up into small pieces: salmon, crab meat, shrimp, cucumbers, and avacado. Next of course, we cooked the rice, and everyone knows how to cook rice, but there's a trick to making it with Sushi.. You cook it in bags, and once the rice is cooked, you switch the water, dump out the hot water, and replace it with cool water. Once its in the cool water, you squeeze the bag until it turns the transparent water white.There are small holes in the plastic bag which makes this possible. You do this multiple times, just keep switching the water until you can't squeeze out anymore white. The idea to this is getting the rice to stick together so that the sushi can hold its form. The green paper that's wrapped around the sushi is usually seaweed, and you have to buy it specially. You also need a wooden thing to roll the sushi in, which i attatched a photo of above. First you put the wooden thing down, and then the seaweed paper on top of that. Next, you spread the rice out over the entire green paper and then you put a thick coat of mayonease over the rice. Next you line up all the ingredients in the middle: the salmon, crab, shrimp, cucumbers and avacado. Finally, you roll it, cut it, and wa-la, you've made sushi! It was a really fun experience. It gave me some time to spend with my family, and my little brother especially made it fun.
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