Scattered Sushi ちらし鮨 For Happy Occasions

• Rice and Rice Dressing Ingredients
• 3-1/3 cups short grain white sushi rice
• 4 cups filtered water
• 3 inch square piece of konbu seaweed
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar (for the rice dressing)
• 3 tablespoons white sugar (for the rice dressing)
• 4 teaspoons sea salt (for the rice dressing)
• Rice Topping Ingredients
• 1 serving kinishi tamago. Note that I don't add any sugar and use sake instead of dashi
• 1.5 pounds shelled and cooked dungeness crab
• 1 lotus root sliced into flower shape
• 1 pound ikura salmon roe
• handful of lightly cooked snow peas cut in half on the diagonal
• black and white sesame seeds

1. Wash sushi rice and strain three times. Place rice and filtered water in a rice cooker (you can also cook rice on the stove if you don't have a rice cooker), add konbu to the rice and water mixture. Let soak for 20 minutes and begin cooking.
2. Prepare kinshi tamago, lotus root, snow peas and dressing.
3. Right before serving, transfer the rice to a hangiri or large shallow serving bowl. If you can have another person help you fan the rice, that would be idea.
4. Begin fanning the rice as you add the dressing mixture, little by little. Mix gently with a rice paddle using a cutting motion, so as not to smash the rice grains. Keep doing this until all the dressing is used and it has absorbed mostly into the rice. You'll find that the shiny layer of dressing at the bottom of the bowl starts to disappear.
5. Create an even surface of rice. Begin placing the toppings artfully as pictured or as desired. Bring the large dish to the table to be enjoyed family style!
6. Note: this recipe is made much easier with a few special tools: Japanese fan (you can fold one one out of paper if you don't have one or use thick card stock or even a manila envelope), rice cooker or pot to cook rice, Hangiri or large shallow serving bowl

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/78461-scattered-sushi-for-happy-occasions (may not work)