Sushi Rice

SERVES

Makes 5 cups

PREP TIME

10 mins

COOK TIME

10 mins

SERVES

Makes 5 cups

PREP TIME

10 mins

COOK TIME

10 mins
Sushi Rice

Sushi rice needs to be prepared on the day it’s being used, if it’s refrigerated the texture changes completely – it becomes too hard.

 

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups short-grain sushi rice (see notes)
540ml water
65ml Japanese rice vinegar
15ml mirin (see notes)
2 tablespoons castor sugar
Pinch fine salt 

METHOD:

Wash rice under cold running water until water runs clear then drain well and place in a rice cooker with water and cook. 

Meanwhile, combine vinegar, mirin, sugar and salt and stir until sugar and salt dissolve. 

Turn cooked rice into a non-metallic bowl, pour vinegar mixture evenly over it and use a wooden paddle to gently fold it through, breaking up any lumps; ideally have someone fan the rice to cool it quickly while you’re folding the vinegar through. 

Once cool, cover with a clean, damp cloth until needed – do not refrigerate.

NOTES:

The cup measurement for sushi rice refers to a standard 250ml cup, not the smaller cups that come with most rice cookers.

Mirin is a sweet Japanese fortified rice wine used for cooking. True mirin (labelled ‘hon mirin’) contains alcohol, so what is available in supermarkets and Asian grocery stores, and normally used, is non-alcoholic ‘mirin seasoning’.

If you don’t have a rice cooker, cook rice in a saucepan with a tight-fitting lid, bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and leave to stand, covered, for 10 minutes.

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