Chirashizushi with Lots of Toppings
- 360 ml uncooked White rice
- 5 cm Kombu
- 3 tbsp Rice vinegar
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 4 Dried shiitake mushrooms
- 1 small Carrot
- 1 section Lotus root
- 400 ml The soaking liquid from the dried shiitake mushrooms
- 3 tbsp Soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Sake
- 4 tbsp Mirin
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 1 1 teaspoon Salt
- 15 Snow peas
- 150 grams Ikura (salmon roe preserved in soy sauce)
- 1 whole sheet Nori seaweed
- Rinse the rice well.
- Wipe the surface of the kombu seaweed carefully.
- Add the rice, kombu seaweed and a bit less water than the usual amount for 360 ml of rice into the rice cooker.
- Leave to soak for 30 minutes, then cook.
- In a bowl, mix the ingredients to make the sushi vinegar.
- Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms in plenty of water.
- Slice the rehydrated shiitake mushrooms thinly.
- Cut the carrot into matchsticks.
- Cut the section of lotus root into quarters lengthwise, and slice thinly.
- In a pot, bring the soaking liquid from the shiitake mushrooms and the ingredients to a boil.
- Add the vegetables from Step 2, and simmer until there's no more liquid in the pan.
- Turn off the heat and leave to cool.
- Break the eggs into a bowl, add the ingredients, and mix well.
- Thinly coat a heated pan that's been coated with oil (not listed), and make 3-4 thin omelets.
- Cool and julienne.
- Take the strings off the snow peas and blanch in salted water.
- Drain and cut into thin diagonal strips.
- Put the freshly cooked rice into a wooden sushi bowl (sushi oke).
- Add the sushi vinegar and mix in using a cut-and-fold motion.
- Cool down to body temperature.
- Add the simmered vegetables from Step 3 to the rice and mix in.
- Cover the surface of the rice evenly with shredded nori seaweed cut up with kitchen scissors.
- Cover the center with the omelet, and salmon roe on top.
- Surround the omelet with snow peas, and it's done.
- Mix well before eating.
white rice, vinegar, sugar, salt, shiitake mushrooms, carrot, root, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, sake, mirin, sugar, eggs, sugar, salt, peas, salmon
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/188257-chirashizushi-with-lots-of-toppings (may not work)