Making Sushi at home is easy...

Put the hot rice in a large bowl and pour sushi vinegar evenly over the surface of the rice, mixing it into the rice with quick cutting strokes. You should use one tablespoon of vinegar per cup of rice. At the same time, you have to cool down the rice... Eunryoung uses the Air Condition fan for this...

The most important tool you will need is a bamboo mat or hot pad, called a sushimaki sudare or a makisu. This is used to roll the sushi. A wooden spoon can be used to spread the rice onto the nori, or you can get a wooden or plastic rice paddle, or shamoji.

Now take nori, toasted seaweed sheets....

..and spread the rice on the Nori...

On the rice, put the typical sushi stuff, for example imitation crab sticks, for California rolls; kappa, cucumber, avocado (make sure they are ripe, the dark-skinned variety is easier to peel), hari hari zuke, pickled vegetable mix etc.

Now roll up the bamboo mat...

The cut the roll into pieces. You should use a very sharp knife. The classic sushi knife is called a bento knife, but any sharp knife will do. It is made of razor-sharp carbon steel with a Ho wood handle that does not get slippery when wet.

The result is great...

Yes, I love it!!

Enjoy!

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