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Inside-out Rolls

The inside out rolls, are those Japanese rolls with rice on the outside and seaweed on the inside, just the opposite of normal rolls where the rice is on the inside and the seaweed is on the outside. These one are just a little bit more difficult to make then simple rolls, but not impossible. [...]

Japanese Potato Salad

As you all already know, Japanese is definitely my favorite food, it’s healthy, tasty, colorful. Besides the sushi I also love their potato salad which I have tried to reproduce at home the other night.

It is actually one of the few Japanese dish which is not super complicated…which is some sort of relief : )

For [...]

Japanese Sushi Rolls

I have already posted a recipe explaining how to make vegetable sushi rolls.

Rolls are very easy and can be prepared with a variety of ingredients: fish, vegetables,  eggs. They can be thin  (hosomaki)with one or 2 ingredients, or thick (futomaki) with 3 or 4 ingredients.

Today I am going to show you how to prepare the [...]

Nigri (Salmon and Eel)

Nigri is a hand press sushi. It’s a small oval of pressed rice with a topping firmly placed on top. Usual toppings are thin slices of fish, omelet, or vegetables. It is really important to press the rice gently but firmly and to do the same with the fish/vegetable that you will put on [...]

Japanese Tamago (nigri)

Tamago is the Japanese word for omelette. It is one of my favorite sushi and it can also be used to prepare rolls in combination with fish and avocado.

It is not easy to make, it takes a lot of practice to get it right, like all Japanese food, it is the result of dedicated attention [...]

Japanese vegetable rolls

After the recipe for making Japanese sushi rice, let’s now see how to prepare some sushi rolls. The vegetable sushi rolls are the easiest therefore the best one to learn if we have never made Japanese sushi before.

Ingredients: 材料

1/2 cup Japanese Sushi Rice – 1 /2杯寿司米饭
1 cucumber – 1个黄瓜
Bamboo mat (makisu) – 竹席
1 sheet of [...]

Sushi Rice

How many of you that are reading this don’t like sushi? I am sure most of you do, like me.

Yesterday night I had dinner at this awesome all you can eat and drink Japanese restaurant in Gubei and I have told myself that I could learn how to prepare sushi myself so this morning I’ve [...]