Recipe: Delicious Sushi Rice (Shari, Sumeshi, Sushimeshi)

Sushi Rice (Shari, Sumeshi, Sushimeshi). Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨, pronounced [sɯɕiꜜ] or [sɯꜜɕi]) is a Japanese dish of prepared vinegared rice (鮨飯, sushi-meshi), usually with some sugar and salt. Here is my recipe for the perfect sushi rice. You can eat this alone or roll into your favorite sushi roll with ingredients of choice.

Sushi-meshi 鮨飯 (also known as Su-meshi 酢飯, shari 舎利, or gohan ご飯) is a preparation of white, short-grained, Japanese rice mixed with a dressing consisting. In Japanese we call sushi rice Sushi-meshi 鮨飯, Su-meshi 酢飯, or shari 舎利. It's made of white, short-grain Japanese rice seasoned with rice vinegar, sugar, and salt. You can cook Sushi Rice (Shari, Sumeshi, Sushimeshi) using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sushi Rice (Shari, Sumeshi, Sushimeshi)

1. Prepare 2 of gou (=360ml or 300g) Short grain rice (turn into approx. 1.5 lb Sushi Rice).
2. It's 3-4 tbsps of Rice vinegar or White wine vinegar.
3. Prepare 2 tbsps of Sugar.
4. Prepare 1 teaspoon of Salt.

Brown rice is sometimes used outside of Japan, but it's not common in sushi restaurants in Japan. Head this way » Note: konbu is dried Japanese sea kelp. Make sure that the rice vinegar you are using is not labeled "seasoned" rice vinegar, which already has sugar added to it. I like my rice relatively highly seasoned, but the sugar and vinegar levels can be adjusted.

Sushi Rice (Shari, Sumeshi, Sushimeshi) instructions

1. Put the rice into a bowl and pour cold water. Shape your hand like holing a tennis ball then rinse the rice drawing circles gently but quickly 10 times. Dispose the water. Repeat 4-5 times until the water gets semitransparent. Drain with the strainer..
2. A tip: Some decades ago, they said you had to wash or scrub the rice to remove the smell. But because of development of rice-milling technology today, it's recommended to rinse it gently. If not, grains are likely to chip and run gooey after steam. Rice for Sushi must be cooked slightly harder than normal steamed rice..
3. Put rinsed rice into the rice cooker and pour 400ml water. Or follow the scale inside if yours has it. Cook as usual, or if there's a menu for Sushi rice, you might be able to try to use it I haven't use this function ever though:).
4. When the rice is done, swiftly add sugar, vinegar and salt on the rice and mix well. Not to crush the individual grains while mixing. Spread the seasoned rice onto a plate to cool down. If possible please fan to cook faster, so that the sushi rice gets shining..

Sushi Rice is super easy to make at home! With just FOUR simple ingredients, the possibilities with this scrumptious Sushi Sushi is gaining popularity at a rapid rate these days. It's the kind of thing that once you try you're hooked! In Japanese, sushi rice is called sushimeshi. Perfect sushi starts with perfect rice which is the basis of sushi.