Sushi at Home!

To make sushi the way they do in the restaurants is not as hard as it seems. To get rice on the outside of the seaweed all you need to do is place down a piece of saran-wrap on top of your sushi roller, and pat the rice onto the seaweed, then flip over onto your roller. Place filling all together near center and roll up.

Making your own sushi is a great way to feed a party of friends or family with out spending over a hundred dollars at a sushi restaurant. You can make a dozen different rolls and you have the choice of what goes into them!

Some rolls I made have ahi tuna, cucumber and jalapenos for a home version of spicy tuna, and other rolls have cucumber, carrots, ahi, salmon, crab, cream cheese with shrimp on top. You can put as much or as little in a roll as you wish!

Sushi Related Japanese Words and Phrases

• Sushi - Literally, "sticky rice," but in general, refers to anything made from the sticky rice.
• Nori - Dried and pressed sheets of seaweed.
• Maki OR "norimaki"- Regular old seaweed on the outside sushi roll.
• Futomaki - Super big maki roll using a whole piece of Nori, rather than half.
• Ura Maki - Inside out roll.
• Temaki - Cone shaped hand roll.
• Nigiri - A topping laid over a small bed of rice. Usually, this is fish, but you can use any veggie you like. 
• Onigiri - A plain old rice ball filled with fun stuffin's.
• Kappa - Cucumber (Kappa maki = cucumber roll).
• Kombu - Kelp