Tips for making sushi

Making sushi is quite easy. The hardest part is the rolling part. It is better to buy a rolling mat that is made of bamboo. For beginners, the easiest sushi to make is the one with seaweed on the outside, because the rolling would be easier. The first time I made sushi, it was very hard to perfect the rolling. I always flatten the sushi. The best way is not to put too much effort in rolling the mat.

not a lot of tips, but having a rolling mat makes it a LOT easier.

We recently bout a Suhi book. The rice was the hardest thing for us to do LOL. We only tried the rolls that has the sushi and food INSIDE the roll. We just used normal stuff like crab and shrimp. Here is one that we made: we took some crab meat and cucumbers and cut them in the thing sticks. Then we mixed mayonnaise with some scallions. After putting the rice on the nori sheet, we flipped it over where the rice would be on the outside. I put some of the mayonnaise mixture then put the crab meat and cucmbers on it and rolled it tightly. Thats a hard part. If you put to much stuff on the inside the roll wont roll correctly. I then took some avacado and placed it on top of the roll and it was done and pretty yummy. My children love for me to make a tuna salad and use that in a roll with some cucumber sticks. You can search the web for easy receipes that you can get for free! Have a good time making it!

Great topic and I hope you've been able to try some sushi since you wrote this. I've been making sushi for several years now at home and I love it. I get my inspirations from looking at other pictures or going to those restaurants that serves them so I know what I need to get mine to look like. From reading other people's responses, the rice is the hardest part to do. You'll need a good sushi mat (or a magazine inside a large zip lock bag would do), the rice, a small bowl of water (for dipping your fingers in to make it so the rice isn't sticking to you) and the goodies to go in it. If you're doing the traditional kind, spread out the rice until you are only 1 inch from the top of the seaweed. That way when you roll it you have something to help make it stick. It's all a matter of technique and practice. I suggest you look it up on YouTube. Good luck! ~Stjarntydarna