Oishi no Makizushi

I used to bluff in front of you guys that I would in charge of the meals if we stayed togather but we ended up studying in different places. Thus, instead of cooking for you guys everyday, I shall share with you some of my cooking experiences so you can feed yourselves everyday!

This sushi is made with the help of bamboo mat called Makisu, that's the reason it is called Makizushi. The serving is arround 6 to 8 persons. I couldn't tell you the exact amount of ingredients, most of the time "agak-agak" .

Ingredient:

two cups of japanese rice
rice vinegar ( use the one in your house)
half cup of sugar solution( mix sugar with hot water, stir it until it becomes sugar solution)
little bit of salt

one packet of nori ( the seaweed wrapper)
two Japanese cucumbers cut into long rod shape
one carrot cut into long rod shape
boiled asparagus with water
fried egg
cheddar chesedale sliced into six
cooked sausage sliced into long rod shape
white sesame

Procedure

Rice:
1. Put rice in the rice cooker. Wash the rice 2-3 times. Use your finger to measure the depth of the rice in the rice cooker. The water needed is twice the depth of the rice.

2. After the rice is cooked, gradually mix the rice withe rice vinegar, sugar solution and salt untill the taste suite you.Please be careful, make sure you don't mix too much of the solution in rice or else it would become too watery.

Let's start rolling sushi!

1. Put a makisu on your table. Actually mama made makisu herslf by using the satay sticks and some threads.

2. Put the nori on top of makisu, the nori should be facing you vertically. Please make sure the rougher side of the nori facing upward.

3. Then, put the seasoned japanese rice evenly on top of the nori. Leave one inch blank in the begining and 1 cm blank at the end of norr. However the side of the nori must fully covered with rice. This can make sure the two sides of makizushi won't ‘kemek’ after you roll it up.

4. Next, line up the carrot, asparagus, japanese cucumber , cheddar chesedale, fried egg, sausage and sesame like soldiers on the side of the rice which has one inch blank. If you feel time and budget constraint to prepare so many ingredients, then you can put the basic ingredients like the carrot, cucumber and fired egg. You can change or add other ingredients if you like.

5. By using the one inch blank of nori to cover up the ingredients, you can start rolling up the sushi. Use the bamboo mat to help you press the all the ingredients together. Please don't press too hard untill the rice break out from the nori.

6. Then use knife to cut the rolled sushi into 6 to 8 pieces. To cut it nicely, you can smear some vinegar on the knife. You should cut the sushi like using the saw, softly cut it thru and fro.

7. Lastly, serve it with the soy sauce and wasabi. Now you can enjoy your makizushi with green tea!