Vinegar Sushi Rice

 

Sushi is a Japanese Cuisine, everyone knows! and I believe that most of us had ate sushi before, but do you know how to make it? is actually not that difficult nor simple, require more on your skill, the more you make it the better you will become :)

This was my first attempt making vinegar sushi rice. I bought a small packet of Japanese short grain rice from Cold Storage (local supermarket) and Pre-mix Sushi Vinegar. this is very simple you don't even have to cook the vinegar with salt, sugar in the traditional way. 

Ingredient :

• 3 cups of rice - washed and drain
• Water - for cooking of the rice
• 1/2 cup of Sushi Vinegar
• 3/4 Vinegar added water

Method :

1. Place rice into a rice cooker, and cook. When cooking is finished, keep the cooker covered and let it stand for about 10min until grains are settled.
2. Then transfer rice to a wooden sushi bowl moistened with vinegar added water.
3. Slowly sprinkle the pre-mix vinegar all over the rice, toss the rice while cooling the rice with a fan. 
4. When tossing is completed, cover the rice with a clean cloth moistened with vinegar added water.

Ingredient of making sushi :

• 1 Japanese Cucumber - sliced
• 3 crab sticks - boiled and sliced
• 2 eggs - beaten, Pan fry and sliced
• Sushi Bamboo roll mat
• 6 pieces of nori seaweed

Method :

1. Place a nori seaweed sheet on the bamboo roll mat
2. Put the Vinegar sushi rice lighty on the nori sheet and spread over the sheet leaving 3/4 inch at the top and the bottom uncovered.
3. Place ingredients on the rice
4. Gently but firmly press the bamboo mat then roll to shape it.
5. Cut into 1/2 inch
6. Served with wasabi and Japanese Soy Sauce.

My rolling skill is not good, hopefully will improves with more practice, overall the sushi taste is there, give it a try :D

My version of Minestrone soup

Finally I am back to homemaker status again, after 1 year of busy, rushing and stressful working life concurrently taking care of my toddler son. So, now I am trying hard to get back my cooking skills as my hubby says I need time to practice again and also update some new recipe here to share with you. I know, my last post was like 8 months ago! haha

Today was a lazy day for myself and family, hubby bought typical breakfast (mee siam, fried carrot cake and zhu cheong fun) from hawker center for us,  and during the breakfast at home I am already thinking what's to cook for dinner, Simple! so, Minestones soup comes into my mine, easy and one pot done.

Here are the ingredients and used and the steps..

Ingredients :

• 1 Medium size potato - Diced in small cubes
• 1 Carrot - Diced in small cubes
• Half Australia Brown Onion - Chopped
• 2 Stalks of Celery - Chopped in small pieces (Because my son and hubby doesnt really like the smell of it)
• 1 Large tomato - Chopped
• 200g lean beef or chicken breast (slice in small pieces)
• 2litre Chicken stock (soup base)

Place the meats, potato, carrot, celery, tomato in a large pot of chicken stock and stir to combine. Cook over high heat, uncovered, stirring often, for 5 minutes.

• Olive oil
• Pinch of salt
• Handful of desire pasta ( I used Shell Shape Pasta)

Heat pot with water then add pasta in boiling water and add olive oil and salt and simmer for 20mins to 25mins, drain.

After soup is boil for 1hour or until vegetables are tender, put pasta in serving bowl add in soup and serve hot.