Comments on: how to make sushi rice

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:05:10 +0000

Hey I love this recipe and use it all the time. I posted a link to it from my blog post about onigiri http://angelsbentoblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/onigiri-bento-in-pink.html
Hope you don’t mind.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful recipes with us!!

By: E.

E. — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:21:55 +0000

If you want to cheat at making sushi rice and you just want the rice to be sticky, you can put in a few tablespoons of honey into the hot, freshly cooked rice and let the rice sit, covered, for about ten minutes.

By: AnnaTheRed

AnnaTheRed — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:56:51 +0000

Hi fugu

The main ingredient for sushi rice is vinegar, and you can’t make sushi rice without vinegar. All sushi (maybe except some American rolls) use sushi rice. So if you’re okay with regular sushi, this recipe should be okay. But it does have very strong vinegar smell when you mix it in rice (the smell will dissipate in the air once you’re done mixing it), so if you can’t stand the smell of vinegar, you might want turn your face away from the bowl when you mix it. Or have someone fan the rice.

Let me know if you have any questions, and good luck!

By: fugu

fugu — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:09:26 +0000

Hi! I LOVE your site. It’s so inspiring!

I do have a question though- you said ” Pour vinegar mixture in freshly cooked rice. (The water in vinegar will evaporate when mixed with hot rice, leaving the vinegary flavor on the rice without getting all soggy.)” Does this mean the vinegar is only for flavor? I really want to make this sort of rice, but I can’t stand that vinegary taste. Would it affect the stickiness if I didn’t add that in?

Thanks!

By: AnnaTheRed

AnnaTheRed — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:25:50 +0000

Hi JuAn666 and reiner

It’s 3 cups of uncooked rice, and I forgot to mention that it’s measured with a rice measuring cup. (It usually comes with a rice cooker.)

1 cup of rice measured with a rice measuring cup = roughly a 1/2 cup of rice measure with a regular cup

As for “how to wet a bowl”, if you pour water in the bowl and dump it out, it should be fine.

By: reiner

reiner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:42:45 +0000

Hi,

1. the mentioned of “cup” is equal to 240ml?
2. @ step “3. Put freshly cooked rice in a wet bowl…” how to “wet” the bowl?

By: JuAn666

JuAn666 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:33:43 +0000

Hello.

When you say “Vinegar mix for 3 cups of sushi rice”, that 3 cups of rice is measured cooked or not cooked?

Sorry for the bad english

Thanks

By: latsami

latsami — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:59:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! I always make maki sushi because I always fail at making regular ones…
I use rice vinegar to do the rice, didn’t know you had to add salt and sugar. And to make it easier to flatten (for maki sushi), I only take the amount of rice I need for one roll, and mix it with vinegar, so that the rest of the rice stays hot and easy to flatten.
I’m not a sushi expert, and actually learned how to make sushi from a French guy! So maybe this is all heretic