Perfect Sushi Rice

Name: Perfect Sushi Rice
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Asian, Japanese
Ingredients: 237 milliliters Rice Wine Vinegar; 59 milliliters Sake Or Mirin (a Japanese Rice Wine); 946 milliliters Short Grain/sushi Rice; 118 milliliters Sugar

Perfect Sushi Rice might be just the hor d'oeuvre you are searching for. This recipe covers 23% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegan recipe has 844 calories, 13g of protein, and 1g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 4. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 50 minutes. If you have rice wine vinegar, sugar, short grain/sushi rice, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the short grain rice you could follow this main course with the Rice Pudding as a dessert.

Instructions

Use short or medium-grain rice. It’s more starchy and round than the long-grain variety, which just won’t hold together well enough to support ingredients in sushi. Many stores now sell specifically-labeled “sushi rice.”

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Sushi Rice

Grains

Before you cook it, wash/rinse the rice until the water runs totally clear—about five or six times. If you don’t thoroughly rinse the rice, it’ll end up in a big, sticky ball. There’s enough internal starch in the rice for it to sufficiently hold together for sushi, so get all the stuff on the outside off by rinsing well.

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Starch

Water

Rice

Use a rice cooker/steamer. Rice made on the stovetop will not work for sushi; it won’t be the right consistency. Rice cookers are widely available for as low as $12.

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Rice

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Rice Cooker

Stove

Heat vinegar, sugar, and sake or mirin in a saucepan just to dissolve and combine. Allow to cool to room temperature.

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Vinegar

Mirin

Sugar

Sake

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Sauce Pan

Cook rice according to rice cooker directions.

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Rice

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Rice Cooker

Transfer to large mixing bowl.

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Mixing Bowl

Pour su (vinegar mixture) over the rice, gently folding to incorporate.

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Vinegar

Rice

Let rice stand for 10 minutes, then fold again.Rice should be shiny, not mushy and have a slightly tart/sweet taste. Cover with a warm, wet towel and keep warm.

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Rice

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Servings:

237milliliters

Rice Wine Vinegar 59milliliters

Sake Or Mirin (a Japanese Rice Wine)946milliliters

Short Grain/sushi Rice 118milliliters

Sugar

Recommended wine: Chenin Blanc, Gewurztraminer, Riesling

Chenin Blanc, Gewurztraminer, and Riesling are great choices for Asian. The best wine for Asian food depends on the cuisine and dish - of course - but these acidic whites pair with a number of traditional meals, spicy or not. The Baron Herzog Chenin Blanc (OU Kosher) with a 4.1 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 12 dollars per bottle.