**To help better demonstrate this process, I've included a couple of short video clips after the recipe.
Sushi-grade tuna and salmon (1/2 pound each)
3 Cups of Japanese rice (sushi rice or short grain)
1/3 Cup of Rice Wine Vinegar
2 TBSP of sugar
1 tsp of salt
Pickled ginger, for serving
Wasabi, for serving
Soy sauce, for serving
Make the sushi vinegar mixture by adding the vinegar, sugar and salt together in a small saucepan and heat until the sugar dissolves.
In a rice cooker, cook up some sushi rice. Sushi rice is usually sold as “sushi rice” but what you’re really looking for is short-grain or Japanese rice. This rice gets sticky when cooked. Cook the rice for approximately 20 minutes and spread out on a cookie sheet with a spatula. Then, pour the vinegar mixture over the rice and mix in.
Take small dollops of rice and cup your hand so that the rice makes a shape similar to a large slug. Then, slice a thin slice of tuna or salmon and put a small dot of wasabi mustard on it and “glue” it on the top of the rice. Be sure as you continue to do this to put the sushi in a very Zen-like design, as placement and feng shui is almost as important as the wonderful taste of your fresh sushi! Serve with wasabi mustard, sliced pickled ginger and soy sauce. Sushi, in particular, must be served beautifully, or much of the beauty of it is lost. Zen is the way to sushi enlightenment!
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