Many dishes of Oriental and Asian cuisine, there is no timeinaccessible to a mere mortal, have long ceased to be exotic. They can easily be tried in a bar or restaurant of Chinese cuisine and even cook at home. True, you will need some specific products.
Eel Rolls
Now you will learn how to make sushi and rolls at home.Let's start with the latter. To implement the proposed recipe, you will need: a glass (250 grams) of round rice. If you do not have it, you'll have to settle for a long one. One and a half glasses of water, a spoonful of vinegar (dining room), fish fillet (eel, smoked), 100 gr. Still need a sour cucumber, specific red algae, pressed into sheets, - nori. This is an obligatory component of the dish, one should not forget about it who learns how to make sushi and rolls at home. Nori requires at least 3 sheets. Hard cheese, pickled ginger (50 g.) As a spice, soy sauce (gr.70-100) and sharp-burning (like our mustard) wasabi paste will help preserve the eastern flavor of the dish. Now, in more detail, how to make sushi and rolls at home, or, more precisely, while rolls. As a main technical device you are invited to use the multivariate. Start with rice: go through, rinse, pour into a bowl, pour water over a centimeter above the cereal and turn it on in the "buckwheat" mode. When the rice is cooked, cool it a little, mix it with the vinegar. The eel should be cut with a sharp knife with a wide blade (they are more convenient) on thin narrow stripes (approximately, like eggplants for stuffing).
In the same way cut the cheese and cucumber, notacross, and along. Now the subtleties of the process, like home make sushi and rolls, characteristic for rolls: on the table lay a piece of food film. Put a plate of noria on it. On top of the spoon lay some rice, on it a plate of cheese, fish and cucumber. With the help of cellophane roll roll-roll. The edges of the noria are soaked that they stuck, and the roll does not fall apart. To make thus rolls from all quantity of products. Cut them into pieces and lay them on a flat dish. Observing the rules, how to make sushi, rolls at home and eat them in accordance with the traditions of Asian cuisine, put on the table in small bowls chopped pickled ginger, wasabi paste and soy sauce. And, of course, Chinese sticks! If the first time you have the appearance of the food a little pumped up - it does not matter. You will practice a couple of times, and the dish will become your crown.
Sushi from rice with shrimps
We will continue to study how sushi, rolls are prepared.Recipes with photos can be seen here, as well as read them in different culinary books. Sushi, another seafood dish, competes with rolls for popularity. The technology of cooking is close, and the ingredients are similar. You also need a glass of rice, the same as in the previous recipe, the amount of water, soy sauce and ginger. Nori for sushi goes less - enough and one sheet, divided into parts. Pasta wasabi is also nothing, 1-2 teaspoons, a spoonful of vinegar. 8-10 slices of smoked eel and the same amount of shrimp. Cook the rice (see the previous recipe), mix with the vinegar. At the shrimp take out the meat, slightly repel. Boil them in a multivark (pour a glass of water) in the "steaming" mode, cool. From half of rice and nori make sushi with shrimp, from the remaining - with eel. Everyone lightly chew the wasabi. Serve with sauce and ginger.
Here is such an interesting Sino-Japanese cuisine you get!