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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 32 |
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This Futomaki is my mother in laws recipe. It is eaten only on special occasions like new years, birthdays, etc. It is fairly easy to make and is very tasty! Ingredients:
3 cups japanese rice |
3 1/4 cups water |
1/3 cup rice vinegar |
3 tbsp sugar |
1 tsp salt |
1 japanese cucumber, sliced into 1/2 cm strips |
2 eggs |
1 tbsp soya sauce |
2 tsp sugar |
1 carrot, sliced into 1/2 cm strips |
1 japanese fishcake, sliced into 1/2 cm strips |
4 sheets of nori (dried seaweed) |
sushi mat for rolling |
Directions:
1. Dissolve rice vinegar, sugar, and salt in a sauce pan over low heat.
2. Cool the vinegar mixture.
3. Steam rice and cool in a large non metalic bowl separating the grains with a rice paddle.
4. Sprinkle the vinegar mixture over the rice and fold the rice the rice paddle quickly.
5. Beat eggs and sugar in a small bowl. Add soya sauce.
6. Cook rolled omelet and cool. Cut it into long strips.
7. Put a sheet of nori on a bamboo mat.
8. Spread 1 cup of sushi rice on top of the nori sheet.
9. Place the cuccumber, carrot, egg and fishcake lengthwise on the rice. Roll up the bamboo mat, pressing forward to shape the sushi into a cylinder.
10. Press the bamboo mat firmly and remove it from the sushi.
11. Cut the rolled sushi into bite-size pieces.
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