Content

• Ingredients
• To step
• Tips
• Warnings
• Necessities

If you love sushi but you have never made them yourself, then you are missing out! Read below how you can cook sushi rice yourself and enjoy this delicacy at home, whenever you want.

Ingredients

• 600 grams of sushi rice or round grain rice
• 600 ml of water
• 3 tablespoons of rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt

To step

1. Place the dish in the center of the oven for twenty minutes.

Tips

• If you plan to eat a lot of rice over a period of time, consider getting a good rice cooker with features such as fuzzy logic, a built-in timer and a number of different cooking settings. that you can adapt to different types of rice.
• Another way to make the perfect rice is by purchasing a Japanese Rice Cooker from a brand like Mitsubishi or Zojirushi. If you use slightly more water than rice, this will give you the perfect sushi rice.
• If necessary, let the vinegar mixture cool in a container that you place in another container with ice water. That way it goes a lot faster.
• Ask someone to help you blow dry the rice while you're mixing it so that you can get rid of excess moisture better and faster, and make the rice cool faster. You can use a small table fan or a hair dryer on a low setting (without heat) for this.
• It is important that the rice has exactly the right moisture content after cooking. Exactly how long you have to cook the rice and how much moisture it absorbs depends on the type of rice you are using, so you will have to experiment a bit and find out through experience how to get the rice 'just right': just cook not mushy. The pellets are supposed to be sticky enough to stick together, but not so soft that you get rice pudding.
• You can buy different types of rice vinegar at most supermarkets; both with and without flavor. The rice vinegar referred to above is plain rice vinegar, without flavor. Rice vinegar with a flavor already has some salt and sugar added. If you choose to use such vinegar, adjust the amount of salt and sugar you add yourself.

Warnings

• Do not use a metal bowl. A wooden (lettuce) container works best. The vinegar can chemically react with the metal, which can change the taste of the rice.
• Rinse the rice very well. Many rice brands cover the rice grains with a layer of talc to prevent the packaged rice from absorbing water and sticking together. Of course you don't want that talk in the pan. There are also brands that use cornstarch, which is edible in itself, but it is always best to wash the rice to be on the safe side.
• Cooking sushi rice is trickier than it looks. Many people trying it for the first time find it a frustrating procedure.

Necessities

• Mixing bowls and containers
• Pan or rice cooker
• Fan