Sushi craving

Sushi is definitely another one of my favourite foods. I love how you can stuff yourself silly and because it’s not oily, you can still feel healthy after a heavy meal of fish, rice and vegetables. However, you have to watch out for all that rice and sugar (in the vinegar mixture!) if you’re on a diet.

Sushi is one of those foods that you either absolutely love or hate. I know people who can’t get enough of it, and others who won’t go near it with a 500metre pole! But even my French in-laws love it and try to make it themselves. Though I have to admit that I was shocked to see my father in-law make handrolls with cheese (how French is that!) one day. Yuck!

Anyway, I had a craving for sushi the other day, and having not yet sussed out the whereabouts of decent Japanese restaurants in Frankfurt, I decided to make my own. Nothing complicated, just simple hand rolls (I think these are called futomaki). I wanted to make some nigiri but unfortunately, I haven’t found a decent fish shop near our place yet and didn’t want to give myself food poisoning by buying stale fish at the supermarket.

Here’s what I used for the hand roll ingredients:
Japanese short grained rice (+rice vinegar mixture)

Nori
Smoked salmon slices
Carrot
Cucumber
Sesame seed

The best part about hand rolls is that you can add anything that you want (please don’t add cheese! That should be outlawed!).

As for the vinegar mixture for the rice, I never know how much salt and sugar to add in, I just tend to guess! However, most of the time, it comes out tasting alright. I should probably find a recipe for this as I might be doing it all wrong.

So for the rice vinegar mixture, I used 1 cup of Japanese short grain rice, roughly 100ml of vinegar, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar and about 1 teaspoon of salt.

I ended up with a bit too much rice and ended up making giant hand rolls! The results definitely satisfied my craving!