Sushi Rice

Types of recipes: Japanese cuisines
Preparation: 20 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes
Ready in: Around 1-2 hours
Makes: 3-5 servings

A basic sushi rice is made with short grain rice with three basic ingredients:

1. Rice Vinegar
2. Sugar
3. Salt

Other than the rice, the most important ingredient is the rice vinegar, which is pretty much the soul of the sushi rice. The sugar and salt are added to flavor the sushi rice to one’s liking. Therefore, a perfect sushi rice starts with a good rice vinegar like Mizkan Rice Vinegar. As the #1 brand for vinegar and vinegar-related condiments in Japan. If you want something easier, you can use Mizkan Sushi Seasoning, which is widely used in Japan. This all-in-one sushi seasoning has the perfect and authentic flavor so anyone can make sushi if they want.

Here are some tips that I would like to share with you when making sushi rice:

1. Use only high quality Japanese white short-grain rice. You can get the rice at Asian supermarkets or Japanese food stores.
2. Wash the rice thoroughly with water before cooking. The rice is ready to be cooked when the water becomes clear—an indication that the “starch” coating the rice is completely washed off.
3. Use an electric rice cooker to cook the rice.
4. Add rice vinegar or sushi seasoning right after the rice is cooked, mix it while it is hot and then cool it.
5. Preferably, use a wooden bowl and spoon to prepare the sushi rice. Traditionally, sushi rice is made in a wooden tub called hangiri.
6. Always use fresh sushi rice to make sushi. Refrigerated sushi rice loses its original texture.

Sushi Rice Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup rice (measured with the rice cup that comes with the rice cooker, about 80% of a regular measuring cup)
1 1/2 tablespoons Mizkan Rice Vinegar

1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt or to taste

OR

1 cup rice
1 1/2 – 2 tablespoons Mizkan Sushi Seasoning

Method

Cook the rice in the rice cooker. Once cooked, transfer the rice out in a bowl and add the Mizkan Rice Vinegar, sugar and salt (OR the Mizkan Sushi Seasoning) into the rice and mix well with a spoon. Let the sushi rice cool to room temperature. Use the sushi rice to make the sushi of your choice.