What to do with sushi rice (besides sushi)
I made some sushi rice last week just to try something different and I loved it. I like the sticky, chewy texture more than regular old long grain rice, at least for a change.
How can I use the sushi rice? I think I'd really love some sushi rice with a good simple dipping sauces as a cheap and filling meal.
(also, is it similar nutritionally to regular white rice?).
Thanks.
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One suggestion - if special sushi rice is expensive, try short grain rice - you get the chewy sticky texture without the speciality food price.
Try rice bowls. Cook the rice, and top with whatever seems a good idea - for Japanese style, saute thinly slice beef or pork and onion with ginger, soy sauce and Mirin.
Bibimbap is the Korean version. Top your rice with cooked marinated beef, kimchi, shredded carrot, steamed spinach or other greens, bean sprouts, fried egg, etc. A classic version is served in a heated stone bowl, which makes the rice go all crunch on the bottom, and has an an egg cracked on the top right at the end. You season it with Korean fermented pepper paste.
Get some Japanese rice seasonings - usually it's a mix of toasted seaweed (like they use in sushi), toasted sesame seeds and other seasonings. Or simply toasted black sesame seeds and salt (in Japan they say 'salt and sesame hair' rather than 'salt and pepper' for someone starting to go grey.
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Maybe too close to sushi but I use sushi rice to make sushi balls from my daughter's preschool snack week. I mix torn smoked salmon, sweet rice vinegar, and then cut up pieces of seaweed. Roll them all up in balls. Not too great after being in the fridge but ok if you get them to room temp.
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todao
Apr 14, 2010 12:55 PM
Any short grain rice could be called "Sushi" rice. It's simply a rice with a high starch content that cooks up into a sticky mass. You can cook it, roll it into logs or balls and fry it in oil (deep fryer if you like) and if you add herbs, seasonings or other ingredients to the mix you'll have a tasty starch to add a unique element to your meals. It makes great rice pudding, rice custards and rice flour (if you have a flour mill or grinder to grind the raw uncooked rice).
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Sushi Roll Rice Salad. I really liked this recipe.
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Onigiri! So cute, so many possibilities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri
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the rice used to make sushi rice is just "regular white rice" (short grain). there are technically different varieties but you can use anything labeled "sushi rice" to make any of thousands of japanese, korean, chinese or other asian dishes which can be served with regular short-grain rice.
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