What ingredients will I need to make sushi?

Question

I know i need nori- ive found where to buy it, but-

Can i use ordinary rice, what sauces should i get, and what do i flavour rice with if anything? oh- and i need vegetarian fillings, other than veg and tofu is there anything usually used, or is that ok!?

THANKYOU for any answers :] I want to make dinner for my boyfriend for his birthday and he lovessss sushi, so help would be good!

Answer 1

The best rice would be sushi rice.  I've never heard of using regular rice - I doubt it would work because it doesn't stick together the same way as sushi rice does.  You'd end up with crumbly sushi.

You also need rice vinegar, and you need to prepare the rice properly - try the site below for some pointers!

I'd use all sorts of veggies in sushi - cooked asparagus, cucumber, grated carrot, etc.  Also, if you eat eggs, try making a Japanese omelet or a regular omelet and making some sushi with that - very tasty, I guarantee.

For sauces, I'd just stick with regular soy on the side plus a bit of wasabi - careful, that stuff is HOT.  If you're looking for something a bit less traditional, try some tempura sauce; you can generally buy it in grocery stores in bottles, and it's quite tasty.

Answer 2

Well I would recommend raw tuna and salmon. Medium grain jasmine rice is the best for sushi because of its stickiness. You need soy sauce and some wasabi if you and your boyfriend like it spicy. If you want to add some flavor add some ginger. Personally I wouldn't like vegetarian fillings but tofu is fine.  

Answer 3

umm seaweed rice cucumber avocado crab meat lettuce for decoration different veggies and if you want you could also add raw fish and for dipping the sushi use soy sauce and you can also put some wasabi paste on the side        good luck and enjoy your sushi :D

Answer 4

For rice, it's best to use short grain white rice. You'll need vinegar to season it as well. Use either sushi vinegar or make your own by mixing 1/3 cup rice vinegar, 3 Tbsp sugar and 1 tsp salt on the stove over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved (don't boil it).

Other than that, you just need a bamboo mat to roll it, your fillings, wasabi and pickled ginger. My favorite vegetarian filling is avocado. You can use anything though, vegetables or slices of sweetened omelette are good.

I put a recipe for chicken sushi on my blog. There are instructions there for how to make the rice and roll the sushi. Hope it helps!

Answer 5

Besides Nori, short grain sticky rice (with a little rice vinegar and sugar if you want), sushi grade fish (if you aren't vegetarian), cucumber, carrot, daikon radish, avocado, ginger, wasabi, soy sauce. You  can put anything you want in the sushi! Be creative. The most important thing is knife skills and uniform cutting (cut the vegetables in julienne style), because you have to neatly place the ingredients in the nori or it'll be hard to eat.  

Answer 6

No ordinary rice!  You need sushi rice!  2 parts rice to 5 parts water... very sticky.

if you're putting raw seafood in it, be sure it is sushi-grade seafood (meant to be eaten raw) and not just any old raw fish.

And whatever else you are going to put in yoru rolls: avocado, carrots, cukes, cream cheese, snow crab leg meat, sesame seeds.. get a good recipe off Food Network and follow that.

Be sure to buy a "kit" that includes a bamboo mat; you really do need that for easy rolling.

Answer 7

for best luck you need a certain type of rice.. it's kinda sticky

vegetarian fillings!! AH!! as a vegetarian, that definitely peaqued my interest. I like slivered carrot, mushroom, pickled radish (the Koreans make "kimbap" which is essentially their version of sushi.. they put a bright orange pickled radish in it, cut in slivers like the carrot.)

There's also cucumber.. tofu (as you said)...

just season it well and offer some tasty sauces to dip it in (soy sauce with added vinegar and sesame seeds is great!)

Hope I'm not steering you too far away, authentically... I'm more used to the korean version than the Japanese verison.. so that's what I'm thinking of..

Oh.. also if you don't have, if you go to the asian market, buy a little bamboo "mat" that's for rolling the sushi.. MUCH easier to make it that way..

Answer 8

some kind of sefood, sticky rice. seaweed, and thats about it to make a basic sushi roll

add some wasabi or ginger