Sushi Recipe
Sushi is a delicious, healthy and easy to prepare food. Deciding on and finding your ingredients, preparing the beautiful presentation, and enjoying your creation are all part of the fun of sushi. Finding a great sushi recipe is the first step in putting together a wonderful meal.
Sushi, traditionally, refers to rice, but it has developed to include the whole concept of the finger food. It commonly is a fish or vegetable, served with vinegar rice. A sushi recipe can be presented in several ways. Some common ways are wrapped in seaweed, served in a bowl, in bite size pieces or in a cone type wrap. Wide ranges of vegetables, seafood, and shellfish are used throughout a sushi recipe.
There are some common ingredients that you should always have on hand to prepare a good sushi recipe. These include seaweed, called nori, rice, and sushi vinegar. These are the base ingredients you will need to start with for any sushi recipe. Several sauces such as soy sauce, and wasabi; a spicy paste like substance, are commonly served with sushi to enhance the flavor. Common vegetables in a sushi recipe include carrots, cucumber, peppers, and avocado. Common seafood used in sushi recipes are crab, salmon, octopus, and shrimp. This is by no means an exhaustive list of what you can use in your sushi recipe. The sky is the limit. Get creative as you like with your sushi recipe.
Where can you find a good sushi recipe? There are several great places where you can find a good sushi recipe. A great place to start is the Internet. By doing a quick search through a search engine for sushi recipe, you can find some great websites that will provide you with a great sushi recipe. Often, they will provide you with detailed pictures and instructions that can help when preparing your sushi recipe. Also, try bookstores for their cookbook selections or local sushi restaurants to see if they will share their sushi recipe.
There are several pieces of kitchen equipment that can help you in preparing a sushi recipe. One of the most important pieces of equipment is a sharp knife. A sharp knife is essential in cutting and preparing the ingredients for your sushi recipe. It will allow you to cut your fish into thin slices, slice vegetables into attractive shapes and designs, and do all of these with ease. Another very helpful piece of equipment is a bamboo mat, traditionally called sushimaki sudare or makisu. This mat is what you use when you roll your sushi such as in a California roll. It is possible to roll with your hands, but the rice can be very sticky, so the mat can help eliminate a little frustration while preparing your sushi recipe. Other equipment such as rice cookers and sushi presses can also help make the preparation quicker, but they are not essential for preparing a good sushi recipe.
A final touch in the presentation of your sushi recipe is the plates and dishes you serve them on and the utensils that you use to eat them. Patterned china dishes, saucers, and cups are a beautiful touch. You can also use matching dispensers for items such as soy sauce. Often, chopsticks are used when eating sushi. Chopsticks come in all styles from wooded to metal and can complement your presentation beautifully. You can also eat sushi with your fingers, so make sure to have some nice matching napkins with the dishes.
It is easy to find the ingredients you need to complete your sushi recipe. Sushi recipes generally use basic ingredients that can be found easily. Many of the ingredients, if not all, can be purchased at most local grocery stores. If your grocery store does not carry what you need, try asking them to bring it in. Many companies will bring in supplies that are requested by their customers. For more complicated recipes that require special ingredients, many Asian specialty stores carry the more obscure ingredients on a regular basis. These stores can provide hard to find sushi recipe ingredients, often directly from Asian suppliers. A final option for finding your sushi recipe ingredients is online. There are countless websites that you can use to order everything from your good ingredients to equipment to finishing touches such as utensils.
Sushi is a wonderful food style. It’s fun to follow a sushi recipe and see your final result. Many people consider preparing a sushi recipe an art form. It can be an exciting addition to your family dinner or an impressive dinner party concept. With a great sushi recipe, you can make out standing delicacies. It can be a great bonding event; gather the family together and everyone can make their own sushi dish. Grab your sushi recipe, your ingredients, your equipment, and have some fun.
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Curried Shrimp
1 cucumber, halved lengthwise, seeded, and chopped
1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tsp. cumin
1 lb large shrimp (20 to 24), shelled and deveined
1/2 tablespoon curry powder
1 to 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Accompaniment: small cucumber and carrot sticks
• Purée cucumber with vinegar in a blender until very smooth.
• Add sesame oil and blend until emulsified.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Pat shrimp dry and sprinkle with curry powder and salt and pepper to taste.
• Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté shrimp in 2 batches, turning them, until golden brown and just cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes. (If necessary, add more vegetable oil to skillet for second batch.)
• Transfer shrimp to a plate to cool.
• Serve shrimp at room temperature with vinaigrette for dipping.
Serves 6
Cucumber and Dill Rounds
Cucumber can be used in so many ways instead of crackers to hold lovely tastes.
3 cucumbers, peeled and sliced into ½ rounds
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup chopped, fresh dill
1. Combine the dill and sour cream.
2. Drop a teaspoonful on each cucumber.
Additions: Thin strips of Smoked Salmon and a few capers dress this up for a fancy party.
SOUR CREAM CUCUMBER
1/4 c. mayonnaise
1 tsp. vinegar
Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder
Onion powder
3 lg. cucumbers
Mix mayonnaise (NOT salad dressing) and vinegar. Mix next 4 ingredients to taste. Peel and slice cucumbers and add to mixture. Let cucumbers marinate for at least 2 hours before serving.
REFRIGERATOR CUCUMBERS
7 c. unpeeled, sliced cucumbers
1 green pepper, chopped
1 c. onion slices
Mix together the following and pour over cucumber mixture: 2 tbsp. celery seed
2 c. sugar
1 c. cider vinegar
1 tbsp. canning salt
Pack in jars and store in refrigerator. Eat immediately. Keep refrigerated.
CREAMED CUCUMBERS
4 lg. cucumbers
1/2 to 1 pt. sour cream
5 tbsp. mayonnaise
1 to 1 1/2 c. water
1/4 c. vinegar
2 to 3 tbsp. sugar
1/4 c. cream
Onion slices (optional)
Peel and slice cucumber. Soak overnight in salt water. Drain and rinse. Mix water, vinegar and sugar to taste. Add cream. Beat in sour cream and mayonnaise. Add cucumbers. Best if allowed to stand in refrigerator for a day before serving.
CUCUMBER CHUNKS
10 cucumbers, cut into chunks
6 onions, sliced
1/2 c. salt
2 c. vinegar
2 c. water
1 tbsp. celery seed
1 tbsp. mustard seed
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. turmeric
Combine cucumber chunks, onion slices and salt and let stand 2 hours. Drain. Combine remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Place cucumber and onion mixture in hot sterilized jars. Pour the boiling liquid over cucumber mixture to fill each jar. Seal.
Makes 6-8 pints.
Snack Sandwiches
Lemon-Dill spread
24 slices rye bread
24 slices cucumber — thinly sliced
Spread 1 tablespoon Lemon-Dill spread on each slice of rye bread. Top with cucumber.
Makes 24 party sandwiches.
Curried Shrimp With Coconut Milk
1 large onion; chopped
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon curry powder; heaping
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 piece fresh ginger root (1/2-inch); peeled and grated
1/2 cup chicken stock
1 cup coconut milk; frozen and thawed,
prepared fresh, extract version, or
1 pound deveined fresh shrimp; shelled
1 large cucumber, peeled and cut into strip
Set aside a few tablespoons of onion for boiling with the cucumber. Sauté remainder of the onion in butter. Add the flour, curry powder, salt, chicken stock, coconut milk and shrimp. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thick. When mixture is nearly thickened, place reserved onion in small saucepan with a cup of water and bring to boil. Add the cucumber strips and boil briefly until limp.
Pour the sauce over rice and place the strips of cucumber on the side. Serve with condiments.
If frozen coconut milk is not available, you can go the harder or easier route. Coconut milk is not the liquid that comes out of a fresh coconut. Rather, it is boiled coconut extracted the genuine way: boil milk and add grated fresh or packaged (unsweetened) coconut. When almost cool, express coconut milk by pouring through several layers of cheesecloth and wringing the milk out. Or the quick, lazy way is to add several drops of coconut flavor to boiled milk. The other option is to use canned coconut milk, available in specialty sections of your grocery or in specialty stores.
NOTES : Shrimp in a thickened coconut milk curry served over rice.
Condiments: Place small bowls of salted peanuts, raisins, plain yogurt and mango chutney on table for sprinkling on top of curry or mixing in.
For coconut fanatics, this goes great with Ginger Coconut Rice!
Indian Beef Patties In Pitas With Cucumber Yogurt
Cucumber Yogurt; (see recipe)
INDIAN BEEF PATTIES:
1 ounce fresh ginger root; (1″ cube)
2 large cloves garlic
3 medium jalapeńo chiles, seeded; roughly chopped
2 tablespoons fresh mint leaves
1 medium onion; quartered
1 pound lean ground beef
2 teaspoons ground cumin
Salt
4 large pita bread
TO PREPARE: For the patties, mince first 4 ingredients in a food processor. Add the onions; pulse until minced. Add the ground beef, cumin, and 1 teaspoon salt; pulse to combine.
Make the Cucumber Yogurt recipe.
TO COOK: Heat the broiler. Divide ground beef mixture into 8 portions. Form each portion into a patty, 3 inches in diameter. Transfer patties to a broiling pan. Broil patties, turning once, until they are browned on both sides, about 6 minutes.
TO SERVE: Place 2 beef patties into each pita bread. Then spoon a portion of the Cucumber Yogurt into each pocket. Serve immediately.
NOTES : A Subcontinental spin on Gyros, about as easy as hamburger.
You can substitute ground lamb or chicken for the beef in these meat patties. Or you can substitute 1-inch cubes of lamb, chicken, fish or beef for the ground meat patties and use the remaining patty ingredients listed as a marinade for the meat or fish cubes, which are then broiled.
Cucumber Yogurt
1/2 small cucumber, peeled; seeded and diced
2 cups plain yogurt
TO PREPARE: Mix cucumbers and yogurt in a small bowl; set aside.
TO SERVE: Spoon a portion of the Cucumber Yogurt into each Indian Beef Patty Pocket. Serve immediately.
NOTES : A great side sauce in general or to top Indian Beef Patties.
Caviar Spread
You can serve this on crackers, cucumber rounds, or use as a dip with vegetables.
1 package cream cheese at room temperature
½ cup sour cream
1 tbs. lemon juice
2 tbs. dill, minced
1 scallion, chopped (use the white and the green parts)
1 tbs. milk
Dash of salt
Dash pf pepper
3 ounce container of Salmon Roe
1. In a mixer blend the cream cheese until light and add the sour cream, milk lemon juice, and scallion, dill and salt and pepper.
2. Very gently fold in the Salmon Roe with a spoon.
3. Garnish with sprigs of dill.
Yield: 2 cups