How To Cook Japanese Rice For Sushi Bake

For the sushi rice layer in a large bowl combine cooked rice rice vinegar sugar and salt add furikake and gently toss to distribute.

How to cook japanese rice for sushi bake. Mix 80ml of sushi vinegar or about 12 of the total cooked rice weight with the rice. Mix lump crabmeat crab sticks japanese mayonnaise green onion wasabi paste sriracha sauce and fish roe. Rest for 30 minutes and cook until fluffy.

I buy japanese short grain rice called koshihikari こしひかりorコシヒカリ. Start cooking in the rice cooker. Combine the rice with water rice vinegar and kombu.

If for some reason there are no water guidelines in your rice cooker pot use 1 cup 2 3 tablespoons of water per 1 cup of uncooked rice. In a rectangle pan 8x6in spread the sushi rice evenly then lightly press down. Switch to broil and cook for 2 3 minutes.

Put the washed rice into the bowl of the rice cooker along with water up to the appropriate line if you used a japanese rice measuring cup to measure the rice. In australia you can buy koshihikari at most asian grocery shops. Transfer into an 11 x 8 5 casserole dish and using a spatula spread across the bottom of the pan evenly.

Cook as per the above instructions. Once rice is cooked add sushi vinegar and gently incorporate assemble on an oven ready tray place the rice make sure evenly flatten add furikake on top of rice. When rice cooker is finished it will switch to keep warm after approx 15 minutes.

Sushi rice called shari by sushi chefs is rice that is flavored with dashi rice vinegar and salt. Mix with a little rice vinegar sugar and salt. Sprinkle the remaining mango and cucumber bits and a bit more furikake on top.