Quick and Easy Authentic Chirashi Sushi
- 720 ml Uncooked white rice
- 5 cm Kombu
- 120 ml Sushi vinegar (store-bought)
- 1 Carrot
- 1/2 section Lotus root
- 8 Dried shiitake mushrooms
- 2 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 enough to cover the ingredients Soaking liquid from reconstituting the dried shiitake mushrooms + water
- 4 Eggs
- 1 dash Salt
- 1 Snow peas
- 1 Boiled shrimp (I used frozen shrimp)
- 1 Daikon radish sprouts
- Make the sushi rice: Put the rinsed rice and kombu in a rice cooker and cook.
- (If you have a 'sushi rice' setting on your cooker, use that.
- Cook the rice so it's slightly firm by using a little less water than usual).
- Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms in water, and slice thinly (don't discard the soaking water.)
- Julienne the carrot.
- Cut the lotus root in quarters lengthwise and thinly slice.
- Put the Step 2 ingredients, the flavoring ingredients and the mushroom soaking water into a pot.
- Add enough water to cover the ingredients.
- Simmer over medium heat until there's no more liquid left.
- If any scum rises to the surface, skim off.
- When the rice is cooked, mix in the sushi vinegar while it's still hot.
- Add the simmered ingredients from Step 3 and leave to cool.
- The toppings: make the kinshi tamago (shredded omelette).
- Add salt to beaten eggs and make several usuyaki tamago (thin omelets).
- Cool and shred finely.
- Boil the snow peas in salted water, and cut in half.
- Cut the boiled shrimp in half lengthwise.
- Cut the radish sprouts.
- Finishing: Decorate the mixed sushi rice from Step 4 with the toppings, and the dish is done!
white rice, vinegar, carrot, lotus root, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, sugar, salt, enough, eggs, salt, peas, shrimp, sprouts
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/156968-quick-and-easy-authentic-chirashi-sushi (may not work)