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Easy sushi

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 30 mins, plus 1 hr cooling and chilling
  • Serving: 64 people (makes 64)
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ cups sushi rice, (see tip box, below)
    • 3 tablespoons salt-reduced soy sauce
    • 1 tablespoon mirin or rice vinegar
    • ½ small cucumber, halved lengthways, deseeded, finely chopped
    • 40g pickled/sushi ginger, finely chopped
    • 4 sheets sushi nori seaweed
    • about 2 teaspoons wasabi paste, to serve
    • spring onions, cut decoratively, to garnish (optional)
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Place rice in a medium-sized saucepan. Cover with 660ml cold water and place over a medium heat. Cover, bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside, covered, for 15 minutes.

    2 Uncover sticky rice and add soy sauce and rice vinegar. Stir together for a few minutes to cool slightly. Mix in cucumber and ginger. Season to taste with black pepper and set aside.

    3 Lay two seaweed sheets, slightly overlapping, in a small baking tray with sides (about 37cm x 19cm). Using damp hands, spread a 2cm flat layer of rice over seaweed. Rub hands with a little oil so rice doesn’t stick. Top with plastic wrap and weigh down with a book. Place in fridge to chill.

    4 Upturn sushi on to a chopping board. Trim and discard edges then cut into 64 squares. Place on serving platter and top each with a small blob of wasabi paste. Garnish with decorative spring onions (if using).

    Variations

    Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free soy sauce (tamari) and gluten-free mirin.

    HFG tip

    • Sushi rice is a particular style of rice available from supermarkets.
    • Make it ahead: Make sushi the day before, chill overnight then cut into squares (allow squares to sit out of the fridge for 15 minutes to take the chill off).

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