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Then drain after 30 mins. Boil Rice : Add the rice and ml of fresh water to your saucepan. Put on the stove, and bring to the boil. Once boiling, turn the heat down to low and let the rice simmer for about mins. Make sure to keep the lid on the sauce pan at all times. Steam Rice : Once it has simmered, remove the saucepan from the stove and leave the rice to steam for a further mins. Serve and Enjoy : Once the rice has finished steaming, mix well with a shamoji, or Japanese rice paddle, and serve into bowls.

You can then use a choice of toppings such as furikake, Japanese pickles tsukemono or sauce for extra flavour or use to make onigiri rice balls. To make sushi rice, the cooked rice needs to be mixed with sushi vinegar, which is Japanese rice vinegar mixed with salt and sugar.

Sushi rice is cooked using an absorption method, meaning that you'll need to measure both the rice and water and cook it with a lid on for a set amount of time.

When this time is up, the rice should have absorbed all of the water. You then need to add the seasoning and cool it down quickly so that any excess moisture evaporates and you are left with tender, sticky rice. Rice cookers make very good sushi rice as they cook in an enclosed environment. You do need to make sure you soak the rice first and add the right ratio of water. White rice is generally measured as the same volume of rice to water for the absorption method — sushi rice uses another per cent water see below.

Some rice cookers have a specific sushi rice setting, which often factors in a minute soak before the cooking starts, so check the timing on your machine. If there is no sushi rice setting, use the white rice setting. Subscriber club Reader offers More Good Food. Back to Recipes Pumpkin recipes Butternut squash See more. Back to Recipes Chicken slow cooker Veggie slow cooker See more. Back to Recipes Cheesecakes Cookies See more. Back to Recipes Family meals One-pot recipes See more.

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Save recipe. Other recipes that I've tried use a fraction of what this one calls for Reviews: Most Helpful. Amelia B. Rating: 4 stars. This recipe has a good ratio of ingredients - I like my rice a bit on the vinegary side, I guess. This allows the flavors to really sink in, and it makes the whole process easier, too. This is a great recipe for sushi rice.

It comes out the same! Good recipe. If you use Kokuho Rose sushi rice you do not have to rinse before cooking. This is really good!! I just bought short-grain rice from my grocery store- they didn't have sushi rice but I think it is pretty much the same thing. It worked out perfect for me. A few tips- if you're making a larger batch, omit the vegetable oil, and add some slices of orange and lemon, including the rind, to the vinegar mixture. You'll also want to add a piece of kelp, if you can find it try an asian grocery store.

Let that sit overnight so that the flavors can come out. A good grade of rice is medium grain California extra fancy sushi rice. When you mix the rice and vinegar mixture together, do it in a wooden bowl unsealed with a wooden rice paddle or wide spoon- this helps keep the moisture level in the rice perfect. If you're very into making sushi, there are traditional bowls made specifically for this, they look like the bottom part of a wooden barrel and have a metal band going around the side.

You'll also want to pour the vinegar mixture over a spoon into the cooked rice so that it's sprinkled evenly, otherwise you'll end up with clumps of plain rice and this can make it difficult to spread the finished rice onto the nori sushi seaweed.

I used the suggestion of reviewer JamieS. She was right it did turn out perfectly. I reduced the sugar and vinegar by a smidge and cooked rice in a rice cooker. Muffin Mom N Garlic Girl. This was great. I agree it would have been to much vinegar.